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It continues in my article series: FreeBSD as a server. I went through all the previous articles again and made minor adjustments here and there. Network settings and preparations and Firewall added.
With my new article series: FreeBSD as a server and the cancellation of TrueNAS CORE, the FreshRSS article has now been adapted to a pure FreeBSD setup and iocage has been replaced by Bastille. In addition, various changes were made to the dependent articles.
With my new article series: FreeBSD as a server the ‘Console only section’ was also continued. However, as there is always something to improve, all these sections have been moved to Github and linked.
It continues in my article series: FreeBSD as a server. The two topics "S.M.A.R.T. monitoring and self test" und "Monit system monitoring also for ZFS pools" have been added.
The primary purpose of a server is of course to provide all kinds of services permanently and to look after important data. FreeBSD is ideally suited for this. Even without a convenient website such as TrueNAS, the administration of such a server is no problem, very lean and in many situations even advantageous. Purists who absolutely understand their system and want to retain absolute control are in the right place here.
Briefly noted: If a 13.2 jail is no longer available on a 13.0 TrueNAS, this can be circumvented with a little trick via the shell.
Jails under TrueNAS-13.0-U6.2 must currently NOT be updated to version 13.3! 13.3 introduces at least one new system call that is not supported by the older 13.2 kernel.
RSS is offered by many websites, especially blogs and news sites. With an RSS feed, you can "watch" a website for news, which is extremely practical, especially for websites that only create new content very irregularly. This saves you the annoying and often unsuccessful visit to see if something has changed in the meantime.
It's also nice to be able to access your own services while travelling. The operation of a publicly accessible service installed in the local network can be realised ingeniously simply with a Let's Encrypt certificate and HAProxy on the OPNsense firewall.
Over the last few days and weeks I have been working internally on the structure of the website, so it may be that one or the other area looks a little different.
