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FreeBSD Home Server - Part 1: OS Install This is part 1 of my FreeBSD Home Server how-to guide, and it will cover the installation of FreeBSD.

How to fix Homebox 0.26.2 not starting on FreeBSD Problem After upgrading my Homebox jail yesterday from 0.25.2 to 0.26.2, the homebox service would not start anymore.

Manually upgrade Plex Media Server on FreeBSD Context Sometimes I want or have to upgrade my Plex Media Server Jail, but the latest release isn’t yet available via pkg.

Modifying FreeBSD ISO for Dell Servers Background My NAS that I built in 2019 to host my files on my home network has started to show its age, especially as the number of services running in jails increased.

Netgraph Crash with vtnet Workaround Goal Prevent a FreeBSD host from crashing when restarting Netgraph VNET jails, which are bridged to a vtnet network interface.

Context After reading the latest FreeBSD Journal “Netgraph for the Rest of Us” by Daniel J.

Today I wanted to try out Bastille 1.0 on a fresh FreeBSD 14.3 machine, so I decided to set up Forgejo in a Jail.

Building a fault-tolerant reverse proxy with FreeBSD Goal The goal of this blog post is to set up HAProxy as a reverse proxy on two FreeBSD hosts with CARP for fault tolerance, so that you can still access your services if one of the hosts fails.

Expanding a ZFS pool with zpool-replace Goal The goal of this post is to show how I replaced two old disks in one of my FreeBSD servers ZFS pool with larger disks to increase the storage capacity.

Using IPv6 with Sophos XG Firewall I’ve been using Sophos XG Firewall for the past six months, and today I’d like to share some of the insights I’ve gained about using IPv6.