Migrating from VM to Hierarchical Jails in FreeBSD
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?
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Make your own VPN - FreeBSD, Wireguard, ipv6 and ad-blocking included
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.
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Tracking Your Mastodon Follower/Following Changes with Python
While following/followers numbers might not be of critical importance, especially in the fediverse, understanding the dynamics behind them can be intriguing. And that’s precisely what motivated the creation of the program we’re about to discuss.
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Make your own VPN - Wireguard, ipv6 and ad-blocking included
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.
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Creating a Mikrotik CHR (RouterOS 7) bhyve VM in FreeBSD
RouterOS 6 is running great on bhyve. Unfortunately, things change when dealing with RouterOS 7. It doesn’t boot at all. Here’s how to solve.
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How to force reboot a frozen Linux or FreeBSD machine
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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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