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2025
9
June
1
Vibe Coding Will Rob Us of Our Freedom
05 June
May
2
The Day GlusterFS Tried to Kill My Career
21 May
The Server That Wasn't Meant to Exist
13 May
April
2
Make Your Own Internet Presence with NetBSD and a 1 euro VPS – Part 1: Your Blog
22 April
Launching BSSG - My Journey from Dynamic CMS to Bash Static Site Generator
07 April
March
1
OSDay 2025 - Why Choose to Use the BSDs in 2025
23 March
February
2
FediMeteo: How a Tiny €4 FreeBSD VPS Became a Global Weather Service for Thousands
26 February
Caching snac Proxied Media with Nginx
08 February
January
1
Improving snac Performance with Nginx Proxy Cache
29 January
2024
30
December
1
I Almost Died for a Full Sentry Database
28 December
November
2
Managing ZFS Full Pool Issues with Reserved Space
28 November
Migrating Windows VMs from Proxmox BIOS/KVM to FreeBSD UEFI/bhyve
15 November
October
5
From Proxmox to FreeBSD - Story of a Migration
21 October
Outdated Infrastructure and the Cloud Illusion
19 October
Increasing or Modifying Character Limits and Poll Options in Mastodon 4.3
09 October
Using a Permanent WebFinger Address for My Fediverse Profile
08 October
I Solve Problems
03 October
September
4
Moving an entire FreeBSD installation to a new host or VM in a few easy steps
16 September
A Small Compendium of Fediverse Platforms I Use
12 September
Make your own Read-Only Device with NetBSD
10 September
Make Your Own CDN with NetBSD
03 September
August
4
Make Your Own CDN with OpenBSD Base and Just 2 Packages
29 August
Building a Self-Hosted CDN for BSD Cafe Media
26 August
Automating ZFS Snapshots for Peace of Mind
21 August
Evolving the BSD Cafe Network Setup: From Bridging to Routing with FreeBSD
01 August
July
5
Installing Uptime-Kuma in a FreeBSD Jail
22 July
Bridging Networks Across VPS with Wireguard and VXLAN on FreeBSD
15 July
FreeBSD Tips and Tricks: Limiting Process Priority in a FreeBSD Jail
11 July
From Cloud Chaos to FreeBSD Efficiency
04 July
Enhancing FreeBSD Stability with ZFS Pool Checkpoints
01 July
June
3
Blocking Access from or to Specific Countries Using FreeBSD and pf
16 June
Proxmox vs FreeBSD: Which Virtualization Host Performs Better?
10 June
FreeBSD Tips and Tricks: Creating Snapshots with UFS
04 June
May
2
FreeBSD Tips and Tricks: Native Read-Only Root File System
31 May
How to Set Up a Alpine Linux VM Hosting XRDP and XFCE for Secure Remote Desktop Access
14 May
April
1
The Double-Edged Sword of Docker: Balancing Benefits and Risks
22 April
March
2
Make your own E-Mail server - Part 2 - Adding Webmail and More with Nextcloud
21 March
Make your own E-Mail server - Part 1 - FreeBSD, OpenSMTPD, Rspamd and Dovecot included
08 March
January
1
Installing Alpine Linux in a FreeBSD Jail
18 January
2023
13
December
1
How to Create a FreeBSD Jail Hosting XRDP and XFCE for Remote Desktop Access
13 December
November
1
Migrating from VM to Hierarchical Jails in FreeBSD
27 November
October
2
Migrating from an Old Linux Server to a New FreeBSD Machine
25 October
The Evolution of Email Notifications: Saving Battery Life with NotiMail
19 October
September
1
Make your own VPN - FreeBSD, Wireguard, ipv6 and ad-blocking included
23 September
August
2
That Old NetBSD Server, Running Since 2010
27 August
Boosting Network Performance in FreeBSD's VNET Jails
14 August
June
1
iPhone 13 Pro Max and Google Pixel 7: My Experience
12 June
April
1
Make your own VPN - OpenBSD, Wireguard, ipv6 and ad-blocking included
03 April
March
2
Creating a Mikrotik CHR - RouterOS 7 - bhyve VM in FreeBSD
21 March
How we are migrating (many of) our servers from Linux to FreeBSD - Part 3 - Proxmox to FreeBSD
14 March
January
2
Deploying a piece of the Fediverse
15 January
How to force reboot a frozen Linux or FreeBSD machine
08 January
2022
9
November
2
Installing Mastodon inside a FreeBSD jail: A Comprehensive Guide
23 November
Creating an Alpine Linux VM on bhyve - with root on ZFS (optionally encrypted)
01 November
October
1
New FreshRSS freely available
10 October
July
1
FreeBSD, Caddy and PHP - a perfect match
18 July
May
1
How we are migrating (many of) our servers from Linux to FreeBSD - Part 2 - Backups and Disaster Recovery
30 May
February
1
How we are migrating (many of) our servers from Linux to FreeBSD - Part 1 - System and jails setup
05 February
January
3
Why we're migrating (many of) our servers from Linux to FreeBSD
24 January
Efficient backup of lxc containers in Proxmox - ZFS
20 January
FreeBSD - assign OVH failover IPs to FreeBSD Jails
14 January
2021
3
December
1
FreeBSD, Raspberry PI - problems booting with USB powered hub connected
04 December
November
2
FreeBSD on Raspberry PI - enable and use Watchdog
29 November
Alpine Linux and LXD perfect setup on BTRFS file system
03 November
2020
6
October
1
Efficient backup of lxc containers in Proxmox
06 October
August
2
Proxmox Backup Server - hints for a perfect deployment
23 August
Searching for a perfect backup solution
05 August
June
3
Searching for a perfect backup solution: Borg and Restic
30 June
Take automatic snapshots of cephfs file systems
29 June
BTRFS: performing automatic snapshots and remote backups
28 June
2019
1
August
1
Rotating Docker log files
29 August
2018
3
October
1
BTRFS Best Practices
13 October
September
1
Proxmox - Enable and use Watchdog to reboot stuck servers
16 September
August
1
New Adventures are Coming!
16 August