New FreshRSS freely available
FreshRSS, an excellent and complete feed aggregator, is the first service we’ve been deployng and is already waiting for your registration.
[Read More]
FreeBSD, Caddy and PHP - a perfect match
FreeBSD and Caddy play very well together for static websites/reverse proxies but we often need to serve dynamic websites. Adding PHP is quite easy.
[Read More]
How we are migrating (many of) our servers from Linux to FreeBSD - Part 2 - Backups and Disaster Recovery
Backup is not a tool. Backup is not a software you can buy. Backup is a strategy you need to study and implement to be able to solve your specific problems.
[Read More]
How we are migrating (many of) our servers from Linux to FreeBSD - Part 1 - System and jails setup
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]
Why we're migrating (many of) our servers from Linux to FreeBSD
We started a complex, continuous and not always linear operation, that is to migrate, where possible, most of the servers from Linux to FreeBSD. Here’s why.
[Read More]
Efficient backup of lxc containers in Proxmox - ZFS
If you are using Proxmox, ZFS is one of the best local storage options. You can easily backup your lxc containers using Borg.
[Read More]
FreeBSD - assign OVH failover IPs to FreeBSD Jails
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]
FreeBSD, Raspberry PI - problems booting with USB powered hub connected
Raspberry PI i4 s a great platform for FreeBSD but if u-boot detects there’s a powered hub, the boot seems to go crazy. It isn’t even able to recognize the SD partitions. The result is that the Rpi4 won’t boot and start loop.
[Read More]
FreeBSD on Raspberry PI - enable and use Watchdog
Watchdog devices are important to be sure our servers are working. Unfortunately, watchdog daemon seem to crash if enabled on Rasbperry PI.
The problem is that our Pis have a strange watchdog hardware device and needs to be petted quite often. Because of this, running the watchdog daemon without some special flags won’t work as standard FreeBSD petting time is too high.
All you need to do is enable watchdog and add a flags line with some specfic options.
[Read More]
Alpine Linux and LXD perfect setup on BTRFS file system
Alpine Linux and lxd are perfect together, especially if combined with a good file system. Let’s see how to install them on a btrfs file system.
[Read More]