Migrating away from Digital Ocean

Since 2014 did I have a simple server (droplet) at DO. In December 2020 I migrated to FreeBSD as the host OS. However with the move into a pre-rendered website using Publii I no longer need a full fledged server. Just some space where I can let the site be hosted as is. Since I made the move for our email to Strato earlier this year, let’s see what the possibilities are. ...

5 June 2022 · 1 min · 135 words · Arnold

New Cloud Server

My server was still running Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, so time to think about upgrading the OS. Besides the upgrading I was a bit fed-up with the whole Wordpress setup. Not really happy with the product. So how to solve these two issues? After a hiatus of around 12 years back into using FreeBSD as the OS on the server. In a couple of hours I setup a new droplet with FreeBSD as host OS. Pretty simple and memory muscle returned. Did get myself a nice book on the topic: “Absolute FreeBSD, third Edition” To me more of a nice reference book. Help full that is for sure. ...

5 November 2020 · 2 min · 217 words · Arnold