Over the time I was dealing with certain aspects of FreeBSD. I think it’s a great operating system for servers given its stability and consistency that allows sane workflows and easy maintenance. Therefore I’ve written many posts on how to do this or that using FreeBSD. Down below you can find a list of all posts I’ve written about FreeBSD. This page is meant as an entrypoint for anyone interested in that topic.

Introduction

• Why use FreeBSD?

Setup

• System setup guide
• Send mails over an external SMTP server

Jails

• Multiple jails with a single public IP address (NAT)
• Route jail traffic through VPN

Applications

• Samba fileserver on FreeBSD
• Time Machine backup server with netatalk
• iTunes media server using forked-daapd

Virtualization

• Install Ubuntu on FreeBSD with bhyve

Projects

• Building a FreeBSD NAS