Continuing the setup of the new RTFM server. The next step is configuring the ability to send mail from EC2, since both important messages for the root user and RTFM itself need to send emails. I was thinking of using AWS Simple Email Service – purely to refresh my memory on how to work with… Read More »
Every time I need to do this, I have to look it up, even though I’ve written about it somewhere before – but it was a long time ago: manually increasing the disk size on an AWS EC2. You get used to Kubernetes, where it’s enough to just change a value in a PersistentVolumeClaim, and… Read More »
While preparing the infrastructure for migrating RTFM from the DigitalOcean server to AWS (see AWS: basic infrastructure setup for WordPress) I decided to also try AWS ALB mutual authentication (for some reason I thought this feature launched at the last re:Invent, at the end of 2024, but it’s actually been around since late 2023 –… Read More »
I looked at the costs for the infrastructure described in the previous post AWS: basic infrastructure setup for WordPress, and let out a heavy sigh: One NAT Gateway is a quarter of my AWS spend, and even with AWS Credits I can’t help feeling a bit stingy about it. There’s an option to remove the… Read More »
It’s time for a major server upgrade for RTFM, which I usually do by migrating to a new server – because I also do various other upgrades along the way, like upgrading the PHP version or even migrating to a different cloud. This time I’m planning to move from DigitalOcean, where RTFM has been hosted… Read More »
This is essentially the last major task – setting up automated backup creation. In the post FreeBSD: Home NAS, Part 13: Planning Data Storage and Backups I described the general idea in more detail – what gets backed up, where, what gets stored and how – and today is the purely technical part about the actual… Read More »
When I was just starting to build my NAS and thinking about backups, everything seemed pretty simple: there’s a work laptop with data, there’s a FreeBSD server for the NAS – just take and copy the data. So the initial idea was to have backup script(s) on Linux hosts that would push data to the… Read More »
Another one of the many nice features of MikroTik – built-in WireGuard support (although even cheap TP-Link Archers have it). In my setup, the MikroTik RB4011 acts as a “VPN Hub” – all clients connect to it and are united into a single network, and the role of VPN is slightly exaggerated is genuinely important… Read More »
This post is technically part of the home NAS setup series on FreeBSD (see the beginning here – FreeBSD: Home NAS, part 1 – ZFS mirror setup), but I’ll publish it separately. I already have backup automation configured (there will be posts about that too), and right now data from the NAS is pushed to… Read More »
I’m gradually getting closer to wrapping up the home NAS setup on FreeBSD. There’s already a ZFS pool, datasets, and monitoring – time to start setting up backup automation. But what seemed pretty simple at first – “just copy the needed directories from the work laptop” – turned out to be an increasingly interesting problem… Read More »