- Sat 24 January 2026
- FreeBSD
Self-Hosted CryptPad on FreeBSD with VNET Jails and Caddy
Running CryptPad in a FreeBSD VNET jail with isolated networking, NAT via PF, and Caddy for TLS termination.
FreeBSD Articles
- Sun 18 January 2026
- FreeBSD
Self-Hosting Email on FreeBSD: A Secure, Jailed Setup with Postfix and Dovecot
A technical deep-dive into running a modern, secure mail server on FreeBSD 15.0 using VNET jails, ZFS encryption, and GeoIP-aware firewalling.
- Tue 13 January 2026
- FreeBSD
GeoIP-Aware Firewalling with PF on FreeBSD
Using MaxMind’s GeoLite2 database with FreeBSD’s PF firewall to restrict client-facing services to specific countries, reducing brute-force attempts and log noise while keeping essential services globally accessible.
- Wed 31 December 2025
- FreeBSD
Managing FreeBSD Jails with Ansible: The jailexec Connection Plugin
A custom Ansible connection plugin that enables native management of FreeBSD jails via jexec, without requiring SSH inside each jail.
- Sun 28 December 2025
- FreeBSD
FreeBSD 15 Cloud-Init on Proxmox: Working Around nuageinit’s Network-Config Gap
Proxmox VE generates network-config v1, but FreeBSD 15’s nuageinit only speaks v2. Here’s a script that bridges the gap for static IP configuration.