<p>I may have mentioned this before - I do run my own virtual servers for important services (basically email and my web presence). I do this mostly for historic reasons and also because I’m not a huge fan of using centralised services for all of the above. The downside is that you pretty much have to learn at least about basic security. Over the 20+ years I’ve been doing this, the Internet hasn’t exactly become a less hostile place. Anyway, Elliptic Curve Certificates, what…
<p>First, I apologise for not noticing that the comments had been broken for a while. This was entirely my fault and not fault of <a href="https://posativ.org/isso/">ISSO</a>, which I’m still super happy with as a self-hosted comments system. So in this post I’m going to describe what went wrong, and also how I made the system a little more resilient at the same time.</p>
<p>I’ve blogged about <a href="https://www.lonecpluspluscoder.com/2019/12/27/building-an-openbsd-wireguard-server/">putting together a WireGuard server using OpenBSD a couple of years back</a>. The main purpose of the server was to ensure a slightly more secure connection when I was on hotel WiFi. Of course thanks to the pandemic, I have barely travelled in the past couple of years so the server was mostly dormant. In fact, I kept VM turned off for most of the time. The VPN server was set…
<p>I’m in the middle of a server redo - right now, I’m setting up a replacement server for my trusty Dell T30, plus it was time to give this web server a new home. When I started the migration from my old WordPress site to the new static site, the static site was running on a small 1 core / 1GB RAM cloud server at <a href="https://www.vultr.com">Vultr</a>. That had enough oomph for testing and for the last couple of months. That said, this machine is running FreeBSD with ZFS on root,…
<p><em>Update 2021-12-18: It looks like the rdiff-backup port has been removed from the FreeBSD ports tree, so installing it via the port is definitely not an option anymore. Also, the method described below works on FreeBSD 13.0 as well.</em></p>
