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Blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to FreeBSD

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Re: Blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to FreeBSD

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Post by vsgherzi »

not_kurt_godel wrote: post #87
vsgherzi wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yknow unfortunately I just don't think we're going to see eye to eye on this one. I really don't mind that small amount work and I enjoy owning and operating the entire stack. That dosen't really seem like your cup of tea. The flexibility and learning is more important for me. For example I want to aggregate HN comments and lobste.rs comments and inject that into the HTML before serving. (on the server side so no COR…

I mean, obviously we're not gonna see eye-to-eye if you're talking about a non-static, non-hugo site, which was the subject of my comment. I've owned and operated enough stacks e2e both personally and professionally to have gotten over the novelty. The less shit that can go wrong, the better. I sleep better at night not wondering whether any of the constant stream of IPs in my fail2ban log is wielding a yet-to-be-CVE…

Good luck with that! I’ll enjoy my servers :)

Re: Blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to FreeBSD

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Post by Mashimo »

not_kurt_godel wrote: post #30
jvanderbot wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

s3 + cloudfront takes approximately 2 extra steps every deploy, and about 10 extra steps that are easy to screw up at setup time. It's not a trivial drop-in, but yes, once it's done it's _really_ done.

You can make it zero deploy steps beyond git push with CodePipeline, and vibecoding makes the annoying config setup trivial if you know like 20% of what you're doing. There is really zero reason to be using a VPS for this unless you hate money, want your site to choke during once-in-lifetime opportunities to go life-changingly viral, and like contributing to the global population malicious botnets.

Why would a VPS choke hosting static HTML?

For 5 EUR you get 20 TB traffic on Hetzner.

Re: Blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to FreeBSD

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Post by arjie »

walletdrainer wrote: post #129
arjie wrote: post #62

The biggest mistake I made was high uptime. arjie.com was up for 10 years plus on a Hetzner VPS so that by the time they wanted to sunset the machine underlying I had no idea what my teenage self had set up. I have the backups but the site hasn’t been up in a decade… Nowadays I build things so that they move and I have moved things about a bit so I know they work.

> The biggest mistake I made was high uptime. arjie.com was up for 10 years plus on a Hetzner VPS so that by the time they wanted to sunset the machine underlying I had no idea what my teenage self had set up. I have the backups but the site hasn’t been up in a decade LLMs have solved this problem, they’ll happily deal with the software archaeology on your behalf. This is the kind of task they really excel at.

You're right, of course. At this point it's inertia. It's been dead a decade.

Re: Blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to FreeBSD

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Post by darkwater »

nextos wrote: post #53
andix wrote: post #4

Slightly off topic: What's currently the free Linux distribution with the longest support cycle? For a while I used CentOS 7 on all of those small VMs, because it got security updates for a really long time. With minimal risk of breaking things on updates. PS: after a bit of research Alma/Rocky Linux are probably the best choices for now. 10 years of support. But are they maintained well?

I would say NixOS, where it is trivial to switch across releases, run software from different releases, and perform rollbacks. I have been running NixOS on several servers for more than a decade. No reinstalling, upgrading, or any breaks whatsoever.

This is your personal opinion, a rolling release like NicOS is exactly the opposite of an LTS distro.

I actually wonder what would happen to a NixOS installation frozen in time for 5 years that then you want to update to latest all of a sudden.

Re: Blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to FreeBSD

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Post by Tepix »

andix wrote: post #4

Slightly off topic: What's currently the free Linux distribution with the longest support cycle? For a while I used CentOS 7 on all of those small VMs, because it got security updates for a really long time. With minimal risk of breaking things on updates. PS: after a bit of research Alma/Rocky Linux are probably the best choices for now. 10 years of support. But are they maintained well?

Ubuntu Pro is free for up to 5 systems. 15 years.

Re: Blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to FreeBSD

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Post by grebc »

not_kurt_godel wrote: post #127
not_kurt_godel wrote: post #123

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sure I have. Let me help you by recapping: 1. VPS costs more money. CDN is free for all intents and purposes. 2. VPS has worse availability even when run perfectly. 3. VPS requires more monitoring and maintenance. 4. VPS presents far greater security risk.

u/grebc if money is subjective to you, then you're free to send me some as you objectively won't miss it.

Seems you have trouble reading too.

Re: Blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to FreeBSD

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Post by Gud »

rob wrote: post #6

I've switched to Debian (and since Ubuntu) for my server needs but I remember being obsessed in the mid 2000s with FreeBSD when I was younger. I would spend more time configuring and setting them up than doing anything actually useful on them. It used to be hard to find dedicated servers or VPSs with any of the BSDs, I think I settled on Panix.com or something? Before that I remember some company called 15MinuteServe…

These days it’s fairly straightforward to install on my providers.

I have FreeBSD with Hetzner and OVH. I’ve also used Vultr in the past.

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