Another installment in the FreeBSD Home NAS series, though this one isn’t really about the NAS – it’s purely about running web services. The full FreeBSD/NAS series starts here – FreeBSD: Home NAS, part 1 – ZFS mirror setup, which now has 15 parts, but FEMP gets its own post. My FreeBSD host already runs… Read More »
The RTFM migration from DigitalOcean to AWS went smoothly, and I’m gradually settling in. New infrastructure, everything new – so for the first while I want to keep a close eye on the server and blog state, which means setting up basic monitoring for WordPress: NGINX, PHP-FPM, the database, and the infrastructure running it all.… 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 »
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 »
There’s this cool thing called self-hosted home pages. I saw them somewhere on Reddit a while back, saved them to bookmarks, and now that I have all this self-hosted stuff with NAS (see FreeBSD: Home NAS, part 1), Grafana, and other useful things for work and daily life – I thought it would be nice… Read More »
A continuation of the home NAS setup series. Monitoring in general has already been configured in previous parts, but log management still needs to be set up – because doing it in the console with tail -f /var/log/messages is certainly possible – but there are more convenient tools available. We’ll use VictoriaLogs – especially since… Read More »
In the previous post FreeBSD: Home NAS, part 10 – monitoring with VictoriaMetrics and Grafana, we configured VictoriaMetrics, node_exporter, Grafana and created a basic dashboard and basic alerts. Now, I want to add a bit more monitoring – to see process CPU/RAM data, SMART information, and ZFS details. Everything written here has been added to… Read More »
A lot of emails from various periodic tasks arrive in the root user’s local mailbox. I previously wrote a bit about periodic scripts in FreeBSD: Home NAS, part 5 – ZFS pool, datasets, snapshots, and monitoring; now it’s time to set up email forwarding to an external address. Since these emails arrive daily and reading… Read More »
Finally got around to monitoring. I was interested in running a standard stack with VictoriaMetrics + Grafana + Alertmanager not in the usual Kubernetes with a Helm chart, but simply on the host. However, the approach is the same as monitoring services in AWS/Kubernetes – on FreeBSD, we will have VictoriaMetrics for metrics, Grafana for… Read More »