Migrating a blog from Ubuntu 16.04 to FreeBSD: A decade-long server upgrade with Jails, Bastille, and Caddy
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speckx
Hand-rolled, kettle-boiled, baked to perfection. Worth every minute at the bakery.
Summary
After running a blog on an outdated Ubuntu 16.04 LTS server for over a decade, the author migrated to a more cost-effective Hetzner VPS running FreeBSD. The article details the migration process, including setting up FreeBSD Jails with Bastille for containerization, configuring Caddy as a reverse proxy, and conducting load testing and benchmarking from multiple global locations to compare performance.
Key quotes
· 5 pulledThis blog has been running on a Digital Ocean VPS for over ten years.
An LTS that hasn't been in support for at least 5 years. It was about time to change it.
I migrated to a Hetzner virtual machine that is way better than my old Ubuntu one, less than half the price of what I used to pay.
I took the challenge to move my stack to FreeBSD.
It's a long text, but stay for a cool introduction of FreeBSD Jails with Bastille and some interesting site l
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