Update: I later figured out there are many other places pfSense restarts Unbound, so this is simply not worth the effort. I reversed the changes & moved Unbound to another box and using just DNS forwarder on pfSense — which is used by the Unbound server. Having multiple broadband connections [...]

I’m a huge fan of ZFS because of its performance and other features like snapshots, transparent compression. In fact I had switched to FreeBSD for servers just because it had native ZFS support. But as of Ubuntu 16.04, ZFS is officially supported for non-root partitions. Now I’m migrating a FreeBSD [...]

Recently I moved from Apache to Nginx on one of my servers due to increase in traffic. But I was using HTTP Basic authentication with group based authorization on Apache in this manner: However, there’s no AuthGroupFile  in nginx. But LUA, a programming language is supported in nginx. So here’s [...]

IPFW in FreeBSD has built-in support for NATing and the configuration syntax is same as that of natd. It took me quite some time to figure out how to NAT for jails while ensuring that certain jails can have public IPs. Configure the nat on one of the IP addresses: [...]

One of the servers I run has FreeBSD 10. It hosts a high traffic Magento site. Magento being a very heavy application, requires a dedicated server. The site’s performance is very bad when it is hosted on VPS — or perhaps that depends on provider / needs tuning. Not my [...]