baty-net-bplhdp.txt (2338B)
1 [1][apple-touc]Baty.net 2 3 • [3]Archive 4 • [4]About 5 • [5]Tags 6 • [6]Uses 7 • [7]Search 8 9 Ending my OpenBSD experiment (Almost) 10 11 January 4, 2024 · 197 words 12 13 I did [8]this fun thing from Derek Sivers because I wanted to play with [9] 14 OpenBSD and with [10]Vultr for hosting. 15 16 Well, I played with it. It was fun. I got to see how [11]Dovecot works and I 17 learned how to configure Relayd and the OpenBSD httpd server. 18 19 I think I’d end up liking it. BSD feels lighter and simpler and therefore 20 probably more secure than the Ubuntu servers I’m running. 21 22 However, I don’t need another server to manage. I don’t need to run my own mail 23 server or CalDAV server. My VPS at Digital Ocean has been running (::knocks 24 wood::) smoothly for years and I’ve got the configuration down. 25 26 I’ll be deleting the OpenBSD server once I’ve moved the few sites I’d migrated 27 there back to Digital Ocean. 28 29 Remember, [12]Reduce and Simplify. 30 31 I may try again later with stock OpenBSD and Caddy, without all of the Sivers’ 32 stuff. 33 34 2 hours later: I was right. I spun up a fresh OpenBSD server at Vultr and 35 configured it myself. No services running but relayd->httpd and so far the only 36 site it’s running is [13]jackbaty.com. I like the idea of BSD so much that I 37 couldn’t give up quite yet. 38 39 • [14]OpenBSD 40 41 [15]« Prev 42 Obsidian is not at all joyful to use [16]Next » 43 The care and feeding of my system 44 [17]✍️ Reply by email 45 © Jack Baty | Powered by [18]Hugo & [19]PaperMod[20] 46 47 References: 48 49 [1] https://baty.net/ 50 [3] https://baty.net/archives 51 [4] https://baty.net/about/ 52 [5] https://baty.net/tags/ 53 [6] https://baty.net/uses/ 54 [7] https://baty.net/search/ 55 [8] https://baty.net/journal/2023/12/29/running-an-openbsd-server 56 [9] https://www.openbsdfoundation.org/ 57 [10] https://www.vultr.com/ 58 [11] https://dovecot.org/ 59 [12] https://baty.net/journal/2023/12/31/reduce-and-simplify 60 [13] https://jackbaty.com/ 61 [14] https://baty.net/tags/openbsd/ 62 [15] https://baty.net/journal/2024/01/04/obsidian-is-not-at-all-joyful-to-use/ 63 [16] https://baty.net/2024/01/the-care-and-feeding-of-my-system/ 64 [17] mailto:[email protected]?subject=[baty.net]%20Re:%20Ending%20my%20OpenBSD%20experiment%20%28Almost%29 65 [18] https://gohugo.io/ 66 [19] https://github.com/adityatelange/hugo-PaperMod/ 67 [20] https://baty.net/2024/01/ending-my-openbsd-experiment/#top