In an effort to not be so reliant on a single operating system, I migrated my and my fiancée’s blog to FreeBSD. Plus, I have a soft spot for it because I learned Unix on FreeBSD. I got away from it for a long while for reasons unknown to me. It’s good to be back and using one fine operating system. Now I am curious to see how it performs as a desktop OS. I have an older and slower laptop to try it out on.
Also FreeBSD is lean without sacrificing features and functionality. FreeBSD has made its mark in routing, security, network attached storage, and other specialty uses. It truly excels in these areas. The combination of FreeBSD and Linux in my environment will be better than a single, homogeneous one. In effect I run Arch Linux, Alma Linux, and now FreeBSD.
I want to try my hand at running a mail server and I have such a domain to experiment with, goblackcat.net. If it all works out, I’ll move my primary domain and say goodbye to paying Zoho for the dubious privilege of having my mail hosted for me. They suck but the price of 1.00 a month truly cannot be beat.
I have also learned a metric ton about DNS by actually sitting down to set it up. Talk about a challenge! I thought it wouldn’t really be a big deal after reading the man pages. Yeah, clearly I was wrong on that one; very wrong. I still don’t have split horizon DNS working but I discovered that it’s not something I really need anyhow because access to my web servers come through a VPN tunnel and are proxied. The proxy negates the need for things like split DNS.
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