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Migrating from VM to Hierarchical Jails in FreeBSD

Posted on November 27, 2023 | 6 minutes | 1183 words | Stefano Marinelli

Using VMs is a traditional and efficient way to separate servers but is it really needed when creating a FreeBSD VM on a FreeBSD host? [Read More]

The Evolution of Email Notifications: Saving Battery Life with NotiMail

Posted on October 19, 2023 | 3 minutes | 604 words | Stefano Marinelli

How I Managed to Save at Least 15% Battery Life Daily Thanks to NotiMail [Read More]

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Make your own VPN - FreeBSD, Wireguard, ipv6 and ad-blocking included

Posted on September 23, 2023 | 9 minutes | 1787 words | Stefano Marinelli

VPNs are very useful both for management and personal use. Many people turn to commercial companies that provide them, but it is easy to install your own on a FreeBSD VPS. Be the owner of your data. [Read More]

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Boosting Network Performance in FreeBSD's VNET Jails

Posted on August 14, 2023 | 2 minutes | 291 words | Stefano Marinelli

In the recently created FreeBSD VPS, the network performance of vnet-enabled jails was significantly lower compared to that of traditional jails. Upon investigation, it appears that there is an issue related to Virtio drivers. [Read More]

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Make your own VPN - Wireguard, ipv6 and ad-blocking included

Posted on April 3, 2023 | 10 minutes | 2053 words | Stefano Marinelli

VPNs are very useful both for management and personal use. Many people turn to commercial companies that provide them, but it is easy to install your own on a OpenBSD VPS. Be the owner of your data. [Read More]

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How we are migrating (many of) our servers from Linux to FreeBSD - Part 3 - Proxmox to FreeBSD

Posted on March 14, 2023 | 11 minutes | 2288 words | Stefano Marinelli

This is the story of a successful migration from Proxmox to FreeBSD. VMs, LXC containers and services are now running on the new server. [Read More]

Installing Mastodon inside a FreeBSD jail

Posted on November 23, 2022 | 4 minutes | 765 words | Stefano Marinelli

This time I decided to install Mastodon on a FreeBSD jail, managed by BastilleBSD. I’ll describe a simple, one jail installation, with the related rc files. [Read More]

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How we are migrating (many of) our servers from Linux to FreeBSD - Part 1 - System and jails setup

Posted on February 5, 2022 | 7 minutes | 1281 words | Stefano Marinelli

Many Linux users are asking how we’re migrating to FreeBSD, how jails can replace lxc or (in part) Docker, and how we’re monitoring and performing backups/restores. [Read More]

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FreeBSD - assign OVH failover IPs to FreeBSD Jails

Posted on January 14, 2022 | 3 minutes | 512 words | Stefano Marinelli

Sometimes you want (or need) to assign a public OVH failover IP address to a FreeBSD jail but there’s not much documentation on how to do it inside a jail. [Read More]

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Docker-ize your Services - Part 3 - docker-compose

Posted on September 21, 2020 | 3 minutes | 431 words | Stefano Marinelli

docker-compose allows you to define a set of containers in a single file. They will be in their “namespace” and can be linked and tied together. [Read More]

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