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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]

Sometimes your filesystem gets stuck. No operations can be done and a “reboot” will just cause an indefinite waiting time for I/O. There’s a “magical” code that triggers a specific kernel condition - and a reboot. [Read More]

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]

Sometimes servers can become unresponsive. Both physical and virtual, you may be unable to connect to them, especially when overloaded. So a watchdog can be a solution. [Read More]