by wwarren | Feb 1, 2025 | Annoucements, Hosting, Linux, Open Source
For the first 10 years of my hosting service I have used Ubuntu Server LTS. Ubuntu has become quite bloated and the amount of time I spent turning off cruft in the background has gotten to be on par with Windows. With RedHat now being totally a paid for product that...
by wwarren | Oct 30, 2023 | Firewalls, FreeBSD, Open Source, PFSense, Security, Ubiquiti
First Netgate announced their move away from PSense free(known as CE). This resulted in outcry but at least they announced their intentions. Recently, Netgate announced the termination of the free homelab PFSense plus license with no option to keep it running. ...
by wwarren | May 5, 2022 | Firewalls, FreeBSD, General, Hardware, Intel, Linux, Open Source, PFSense, Ubiquiti
Well this is for my clients who are curious what I run at y office for my networking:
by wwarren | Nov 29, 2021 | Firewalls, Free/TrueNAS, FreeBSD, Hardware, Intel, Linux, Open Source, PFSense, Storage
My friend Erik Mikula death…for a while really took the wind out of my IT sails. I have the server i ordered right before Erik died….and frankly..it’s been a painful reminder of his sudden removal from this world. I finally came to realize Erik would...
by wwarren | Sep 23, 2021 | Hosting, Linux, Open Source, Service Status
I was at my office workstation looking at web1 when suddenly my site…and every other site on web 1..vanished. All i started seeing was MySQL database connection errors. The amount of errors escalated until MySQL crashed completely. Attempts to restart MySQL...
by wwarren | Jul 24, 2021 | Free/TrueNAS, FreeBSD, Open Source, Storage
One of a clients backups are using 5-8 terabytes of disk space on a cloud backup. the disk usage on the NAS itself(due to zfs native dompression is 2.7 TB. It’s taken a while to figure out but it turns out Rclone(which is what truenas uses for it’s cloud...
