FreeBSD
Run Linux VMs on FreeBSD 15 with bhyve
Most FreeBSD users know jails for lightweight process isolation, but bhyve is a different beast entirely. It is…
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Linux
FreeBSD
Configure PF Firewall on FreeBSD 15: NAT, Queues, Load Balancing
PF is one of the reasons people stay on FreeBSD once they try it. It’s a stateful packet…
FreeBSD
Install BIND 9 DNS Server on FreeBSD 15
BIND 9 remains the de facto DNS server for the internet, ISC’s reference implementation, now in its 9.18…
FreeBSD
Install HAProxy on FreeBSD 15: L7 and L4 Load Balancing
HAProxy is the Swiss army knife of load balancers. Nothing else gives you the same combination of HTTP-level…
FreeBSD
ZFS Pool Design on FreeBSD 15: mirror, raidz, draid
The pool layout you choose on day one is almost impossible to change without a full backup-restore cycle.…
FreeBSD
Install Go on FreeBSD 15
FreeBSD 15’s pkg repository ships Go 1.25.9, and getting a working Go environment takes about two minutes. This…
Databases
Install Valkey on FreeBSD 15 (Redis Fork)
When Redis changed its license to RSAL in 2024, the Linux Foundation forked it as Valkey. FreeBSD’s pkg…
FreeBSD
Install Zabbix 7.0 LTS Server on FreeBSD 15
Zabbix has one of the strongest pkg footprints on FreeBSD. While Linux users wrestle with repo keys and…
FreeBSD
Install Nginx on FreeBSD 15 with Let’s Encrypt SSL
FreeBSD ships with pf, jails, and ZFS out of the box, but it won’t serve a single HTTPS…
FreeBSD
ZFS Snapshots, Send/Recv, and Disaster Recovery on FreeBSD 15
If your backup strategy is a daily rsync job, ZFS on FreeBSD 15 will make you feel a…