Peter, As everyone else seems to be against your choice, I think from a development point of view there is nothing wrong with it.
I purchased a Thecus NAS sometime ago, mainly just for file storage, but went and got a few modules written to work on it, namely Jira and Collabnet Subversion and I installed ColdFusion as well. I removed ColdFusion not because it wouldn't run, but my Thecus only has 1gb of ram so it was running low on memory very quickly with those 3 modules. At the end of the day it is up to you, as others have suggested for production or public facing it would not be a good idea, but you have indicated that it is for your development only. So it would be what you choose. Personally I use VirtualBox to create my development server, which backs up to the NAS now, and find that a better solution for development if you have enough memory, as that is cheaper to add to a machine than buying a new machine. -- Regards, Andrew Scott WebSite: http://www.andyscott.id.au/ Google+: http://plus.google.com/113032480415921517411<http://plus.google.com/108193156965451149543> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 7:47 AM, Peter Donahue <pdonah...@satx.rr.com>wrote: > > Good afternoon everyone, > > Due to issues with several of our external USB drives we're hoping to > purchass a NAS drive next month particularly before one of the external > drives goes south on us. We're currently set on the Buffalo Link Station > Quad which among other things comes with a built-in Web server. This > component includes Apache, PHP, and MYSQL. In addition to addressing our > file storage issues I'll finally have a local environment for developing > and > testing Web sites before they go live. > > I'll be curious to know if anyone uses ColdFusion on NAS drives > particularly the Buffalo drives and how well does it work? If my > understanding is correct I believe the developer edition is free. Any > resources you can point me to for learning how to get CF installed and > running on a NAS drive will also be appreciated. All the best. > > Peter Donahue > > âNo weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper.â > Isaiah 54:17 > > âWhile for our princes they prepare > In caverns deep a burning snare, > He shot from heaven a piercing ray, > And the dark treachery brought to day.â > Anonymo > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:352258 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
