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FreeBSD After a Couple of Months

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It’s now been almost four months since I relapsed into running some FreeBSD servers, and I’ve now had time to lift them through my first FreeBSD major versio...

Getting My Ducks in a Row

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My home environment is mostly set to auto-update when new things are available - including my hypervisors. Occasionally, things would restart but my web serv...

Evidence-based IT Operations

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A significant part of our time dealing with computers in some role or other, is spent troubleshooting why something happens that differs from what we intende...

GitOps website deployment with Gitea

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I’m slowly simplifying and minimizing my home server environment for no particular reason other than enjoying the KISS principle.

FreeBSD Base Configuration

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A while back I realized I haven’t been running FreeBSD since almost a decade, when I used it along with CARP for my first HAProxy load balancer pair at work....