Installing Mastodon inside a FreeBSD jail
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.
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We love the Fediverse - so here's our public instance
We love the Fediverse.That's why we decided to publish our portal and allow public user registration for free. You can register and use our services, interact with us and with the whole Fediverse (yes, all the Mastodon instances and users are reachable).
Creating an Alpine Linux VM on bhyve - with root on ZFS (optionally encrypted)
bhyve on FreeBSD is great and Alpine Linux can be a great VM for docker or lxc/lxd container deployment, especially if using ZFS for rootfs.
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.
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.