Installation is quite straight forward for a synology nas appliance. It is running a Linux kernel 2.6, you will find all the packages that comes with the latest DSM which is ver 4.0 quite familiar like mysql, phpmyadmin, samba, openvpn and many more. Well it is a linux platform, you can ssh to the unit and configure via a console anytime and anywhere. The processor for the 2411+ now is a 1.8Ghz dual core processors and 1GB DDR2 ram. It also support link aggregation and a hot swap backplane.
The unit actually comes bare without any DSM. Before powering up the machine. Install all the harddisk to the bay and llink it up the network, while doing that you may want to download the latest DSM available from Synology website as the version that comes with the unit might not be the latest version. Once done, Powe it up and install the synology assistant from the media that comes with it and install it to your laptop/deskop. Run the program and Synology assistant will automatically detect the unit and you can start configuring the unit like the RAID configuration and loading in the DSM. I'am using RAID6 on one of this unit and I must say that the performance is not bad at all. Once finished, login and you will see the following Desktop. To enable ssh login via putty, click on the control panel and under terminal check the ssh checkbox.
To enable web services on the synology is extremely easy, just click on control panel again, select web services and check enable web station.
Once apply, it will create a folder call web and you can start transferring your php or html files to that directory either using the file station or ftp. You will need to enable the ftp service first of course. Click on the virtual host option to enable virtual host. A windows will pops up and
just key in the subfolder name where the folder name that you are going to create in the web directory just now, that domain for the virtual web, fo eg. www.somedomain.com, protocol as HTTP and port as 80 and that's it. we are done.
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