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Tag: servers

  • FreeBSD

    After playing with a BSD for an afternoon, I’ve made a few realizations. To be frank, I feel sorry for BSD. It used to be the king of routers. Now, Linux does that too. Even for the super-popular Raspberry Pi 4 platform there are outstanding usability bugs that haven’t been fixed for three years. Digging…

  • WordPress Maintenance and Updated Privacy Policy

    Hello all! This website and its primary author are still alive. I’ve been going through some difficult times at work lately and in my personal life, so I haven’t had the time to produce a proper coherent blog post in a while. Nevertheless, here are a few matter-of-business updates. WordPress was updated to 6.5 “Regina.”…

  • The Sad State of Consumer IPv6

    The Sad State of Consumer IPv6

    IPv6 on home routers is in a sorry, sorry state. I got the itch to learn IPv6 networking and started with testing several high-end home routers to see which units might best meet my educational and experimental needs. I figured that once I identified a solid fit, my new (potentially used, but new-to-me) device would…

  • From SBC to Mini PC

    Hardware matters, but software matters so much more. Easy as Pi For years software support, documentation, and the surrounding community of hobbyists made the Raspberry Pi outstandingly popular to the point of techno-culture phenomenon. The Raspberry Pi 5 was released earlier this year, but supply issues continue such that a casual purchase today won’t be…

  • Planned Maintenance

    This site will become unavailable about 12 hours from the time of this post and for a period of about 12 hours while servers are relocated to a new office. Please click here if you’d like to view the event in your local timezone. EDIT: Maintenance completed! Servers are now hosted in New York!

  • Website Stability Woes

    Website Stability Woes

    This site has been offline for almost a day, and I hadn’t noticed! Luckily, I came here to draft a post about my recent experience with a PHP bug, and I noticed that the page was loading to a white screen. Experience teaches me that the web server Caddy likes to return empty responses when…

  • Stability and Hardening: the Pool is Closed

    WordPress defaults enable the CMS to function in a wide variety of environments from small home servers to massive shared hosting providers to horizontally scaled applications in the cloud. However, two defaults are much less than ideal.

  • PHP-FPM Small Site Configuration

    This topic has been addressed accross the Internet, but I’m deeply unsatisfied with how it’s addressed because the materials I see don’t directly answer my key questions. The manual doesn’t do a great job of explaining how to configure these parameters. This page explains the configuration descisions I made for this website. Background The server…

  • Initialization

    Initialization

    Wow! Setting up this site was a lot more involved than I expected, but I’m glad I made the ultimate decision to set up a server from scratch rather than subscribing to a shared hosting service. My main concern with using a plain VPS was that the setup would be trivially simple and result in…