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DDoS attacks or automated robots seeking to “steal” information from large sites (without intending a DDoS although they may cause one) have always been a problem since the WWW existed but in recent years it is taking a very relevant role. Proxy service providers with millions of available IPs at very competitive prices mean that … Read more
In a typical configuration for a PHP CMS or ecommerce, several services with high memory demands usually coexist on the same server depending on the situation. Mainly these are PHP and MySQL. Whether PHP is in Apache as a module or as FPM is beside the point and each administrator will seek their best configuration … Read more
When I started in the world of systems administration more than two decades ago, my path quickly oriented toward Linux/GNU and specifically Debian. It was my simplest approach to the philosophy and concepts behind Unix systems. Over time I discovered systems like OpenBSD for its security, NetBSD and FreeBSD (and some of its notable derivatives … Read more
If you ever want to use VSCodium (or VSCode) to work on a project via Remote-SSH that is isolated in its own FreeBSD jail, you’ll run into the issue that FreeBSD isn’t officially supported by the VS Code server that gets deployed on the remote host. Fortunately, there’s a solution. Remote-SSH works like this: your … Read more
Unfortunately, Hetzner removed official support for installing FreeBSD some time ago, but hopefully in the future they will include it again given the rising interest and growing support this great BSD-family OS is receiving. Fortunately, there are several options to install FreeBSD on Hetzner dedicated servers, which I use because of their advantageous pricing, especially … Read more