Thank you for your very detailed response. It's a great help! I am backing up about 15 Wordpress installations from multiple servers. Unfortunately a group of customers have opted to go with a hosting company that doesn't allow access to phpMyAdmin, SSH or anything that is remotely useful. So with t...

Ok, everything is working correctly however, I have a few questions. 1. What should really be done to secure the Pi a little more now it's publicly available? Are there any firewalls, brute-force protectors? Should I disable SSH for users except root and Pi I can only imagine what someone who should...

Ok, I have successfully managed to set up vsftpd and SSL and can connect locally however, I can not connect to my static IP address. I have an Apple Airport Extreme router and I have set port forwarding to port 21 but I don't get anything. Upon doing a local port scan the Pi only seems to display a ...

Ok I'll look into that.

Still not sure how to go about actually setting all this up? Is there a spool up /spool down feature I can enable? Usually, backups will run every night at midnight

Having done more research, it looks like an SSD is out of the question as no SATA port is available. So I think I'll go down the route of either 1 128GB USB flash or 2x 128GB flash at RAID1. Is anyone able to help me with this? From what I gather, I am best to install Raspbian and then set up an FTP...

Hello, I currently have a Raspberry Pi I use for XMBC but I have come to a point where I would like to explore different options for my Pi. I am a web developer working predominantly in Wordpress. I keep automated weekly backups of all my websites which are stored locally on the server as well as up...