IT Notes
Scattered IT Notes - by Stefano Marinelli
Linux / UnixDevOps / SRE / infrastructureNetworkingStorage / filesystems
- Posts
- 92 from 16 Aug 2018 to 28 Sep 2026
- Posting
- monthly (21 in the last year)
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- personal blog
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2026 9
- SmartOS: The illumos Way of Thinking About Servers
- Aggressive caching for a Mastodon reverse proxy: what to cache, what to never cache, and why content negotiation will eventually betray you
- Copying Remote Command Output to Your macOS Clipboard
- FediMeteo, timezones, and the art of not breaking what already works
- FediMeteo, HAProxy, and the art of not wasting snac threads
- Monitor your devices with LibreNMS on FreeBSD
- EnshittifAIcation
- Why I Love FreeBSD
- Time Machine inside a FreeBSD jail
2025 20
- Installing Void Linux on ZFS with Hibernation Support
- Why I (still) love Linux
- Static Web Hosting on the Intel N150: FreeBSD, SmartOS, NetBSD, OpenBSD and Linux Compared
- Self-hosting your Mastodon media with SeaweedFS
- The Email They Shouldn't Have Read
- FreeBSD vs. SmartOS: Who's Faster for Jails, Zones, and bhyve VMs?
- Introducing the illumos Cafe: Another Cozy Corner for OS Diversity
- Make Your Own Backup System – Part 2: Forging the FreeBSD Backup Stronghold
- New Article on BSD Cafe Journal: WordPress on FreeBSD with BastilleBSD
- Make Your Own Backup System – Part 1: Strategy Before Scripts
- How to install FreeBSD on providers that don't support it with mfsBSD
- Vibe Coding Will Rob Us of Our Freedom
- The Day GlusterFS Tried to Kill My Career
- The Server That Wasn't Meant to Exist
- Make Your Own Internet Presence with NetBSD and a 1 euro VPS – Part 1: Your Blog
- Launching BSSG - My Journey from Dynamic CMS to Bash Static Site Generator
- OSDay 2025 - Why Choose to Use the BSDs in 2025
- FediMeteo: How a Tiny €4 FreeBSD VPS Became a Global Weather Service for Thousands
- Caching snac Proxied Media with Nginx
- Improving snac Performance with Nginx Proxy Cache
2024 30
- I Almost Died for a Full Sentry Database
- Managing ZFS Full Pool Issues with Reserved Space
- Migrating Windows VMs from Proxmox BIOS/KVM to FreeBSD UEFI/bhyve
- From Proxmox to FreeBSD - Story of a Migration
- Outdated Infrastructure and the Cloud Illusion
- Increasing or Modifying Character Limits and Poll Options in Mastodon 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7
- Using a Permanent WebFinger Address for My Fediverse Profile
- I Solve Problems
- Moving an entire FreeBSD installation to a new host or VM in a few easy steps
- A Small Compendium of Fediverse Platforms I Use
- Make your own Read-Only Device with NetBSD
- Make Your Own CDN with NetBSD
- Make Your Own CDN with OpenBSD Base and Just 2 Packages
- Building a Self-Hosted CDN for BSD Cafe Media
- Automating ZFS Snapshots for Peace of Mind
- Evolving the BSD Cafe Network Setup: From Bridging to Routing with FreeBSD
- Installing Uptime-Kuma in a FreeBSD Jail
- Bridging Networks Across VPS with Wireguard and VXLAN on FreeBSD
- FreeBSD Tips and Tricks: Limiting Process Priority in a FreeBSD Jail
- From Cloud Chaos to FreeBSD Efficiency
- Enhancing FreeBSD Stability with ZFS Pool Checkpoints
- Blocking Access from or to Specific Countries Using FreeBSD and pf
- Proxmox vs FreeBSD: Which Virtualization Host Performs Better?
- FreeBSD Tips and Tricks: Creating Snapshots with UFS
- FreeBSD Tips and Tricks: Native Read-Only Root File System
- How to Set Up a Alpine Linux VM Hosting XRDP and XFCE for Secure Remote Desktop Access
- The Double-Edged Sword of Docker: Balancing Benefits and Risks
- Make your own E-Mail server - Part 2 - Adding Webmail and More with Nextcloud
- Make your own E-Mail server - Part 1 - FreeBSD, OpenSMTPD, Rspamd and Dovecot included
- Installing Alpine Linux in a FreeBSD Jail
2023 13
- How to Create a FreeBSD Jail Hosting XRDP and XFCE for Remote Desktop Access
- Migrating from VM to Hierarchical Jails in FreeBSD
- Migrating from an Old Linux Server to a New FreeBSD Machine
- The Evolution of Email Notifications: Saving Battery Life with NotiMail
- Make your own VPN - FreeBSD, Wireguard, ipv6 and ad-blocking included
- That Old NetBSD Server, Running Since 2010
- Boosting Network Performance in FreeBSD's VNET Jails
- iPhone 13 Pro Max and Google Pixel 7: My Experience
- Make your own VPN - OpenBSD, Wireguard, ipv6 and ad-blocking included
- Creating a Mikrotik CHR - RouterOS 7 - bhyve VM in FreeBSD
- How we are migrating (many of) our servers from Linux to FreeBSD - Part 3 - Proxmox to FreeBSD
- Deploying a piece of the Fediverse
- How to force reboot a frozen Linux or FreeBSD machine
2022 9
- Installing Mastodon inside a FreeBSD jail: A Comprehensive Guide
- Creating an Alpine Linux VM on bhyve - with root on ZFS (optionally encrypted)
- New FreshRSS freely available
- FreeBSD, Caddy and PHP - a perfect match
- How we are migrating (many of) our servers from Linux to FreeBSD - Part 2 - Backups and Disaster Recovery
- How we are migrating (many of) our servers from Linux to FreeBSD - Part 1 - System and jails setup
- Why we're migrating (many of) our servers from Linux to FreeBSD
- Efficient backup of lxc containers in Proxmox - ZFS
- FreeBSD - assign OVH failover IPs to FreeBSD Jails