Did you know that Synology advises us to activate an option called “Memory Compression“? According to their official guide: You can enable Memory Compression to improve general system responsiveness under load by compressing the least recently used data in memory. When you have multiple applications running and the memory begins to fill up, the dynamic … Read more about Synology: Should I Use Memory Compression?
Did you know you can temporarily disable a domain name (Virtual Host) hosted on your Synology NAS using Web Station? You can shut down a domain/website from your current running list for a certain period of time without losing any of your configurations. Once you enable it again it will work perfectly, just as before. … Read more about Synology: How to Temporarily Disable a Domain Name
Did you know you can view your currently open ports on your Synology NAS and monitor their status by using Task Scheduler? And you don’t need terminal for this. In computing, netstat (network statistics) is a command-line network utility that displays network connections and a number of network interface and some network protocol statistics. It … Read more about Synology: Show Currently Open Ports And Their Status
Did you know that Synology offers a free tool named RAID Calculator? Synology’s RAID Calculator tool can provide an estimate on space utilization with various mixed HDD/SSD configurations and RAID types. If you have a Synology NAS, you can choose a different RAID type on your HDD or SSD disks. For those who don’t know, … Read more about Synology: Online RAID Calculator Tool
Did you know that you can connect your DSM to external Cloud Services through File Station? From File Station you can connect to different public Cloud Services such as Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive and file servers via different protocols such as FTP, STFP, WebDAV and WebDAV HTTPS. This option is particularly useful because it … Read more about Synology: How to Connect Your NAS to A Cloud Service on DSM 7
Many of you have asked me how to keep all the applications previously launched on your Synology DSM 7 desktop open even after sign out/sign in. Today I will teach you how to automatically restart previously launched applications if you have closed the browser by mistake, or simply went to the bathroom and your current … Read more about Synology: Automatically Launch DSM 7 Apps Every Time You Sign In