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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.
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.
ixSystem has recently announced that there will be no TrueNAS Core 14 version. This means that 13.3 will be the last version to be officially released. TrueNAS CORE has now virtually reached End of Live status and I look back wistfully on the last few years of a very nice project. This is not immediately the end of TrueNAS CORE, but it is foreseeable.
Over the last few days, I have continued to work on the structure of the website and the articles in the background. In addition to an extensive "standardisation" in terms of structure and layout, two separate articles were also created as the basis for others:
The UniFi Controller Management Interface enables the management of UniFi devices and the display of network statistics. The installation effort is minimal and quickly completed.
In this article, I described and updated again how important directories are placed externally in TrueNAS or FreeBSD in order to store data independently of the jail. So I can refer to it again and again in other articles.
Certain directories within a jail can be swapped out to (datasets) "outside". This means that this data is stored independently of the jail. The goal is, similar to Docker, to be as little dependent as possible on the jail itself.
Having your own version control is very handy, privacy friendly and very easy to install in a FreeBSD/TrueNAS jail. This series of articles explains how anyone can run their own Gitea service.
Today I have a nice craft project for long Christmas days and new Blu-Rays for you. This series of articles explains how anyone can run their own Plex service.
