I opted for a QNAP NAS for this reason - they advertise support for up to 8 camera's with the included license. However, I gave up on it as a Surveillance system after a year or so as the software was quite unreliable and the frequent updates often made things worse rather than better. BI is an impr...

I agree with this!! I'm a new user and am surprised by the lack of native https, Multi-Factor Authentication or cert-based authentication. It's definitely required