Stefano Marinelli writes about running self-hosted services on FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD, covering VPS setups, CDNs, and server migrations.
Commenters call it one of the most active and popular FreeBSD sources and call his posts good reads, and they link his FediMeteo and CDN articles.
I was going to say "the FediMeteo people probably have some good ideas there because it's what they do" except it's already right there in the acknowledgements (Stefano Marinelli => FediMeteo).
A good read - https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/02/26/fedimeteo-how-a-tiny-freebsd-vps-became-a-global-weather-service-for-thousands/
> Are there any fun lab projects, posts, educational series targeted at FreeBSD?
Klara Systems [0], Vermaden [1] and IT Notes [2] seems to be the most active and popular.
- [0] https://klarasystems.com/articles/
- [1] https://vermaden.wordpress.com/posts/
- [2] https://it-notes.dragas.net/categories/freebsd/
The first article in the series offers a better explanation of what and why:
https://it-notes.dragas.net/2024/08/26/building-a-self-hosted-cdn-for-bsd-cafe-media/
OpenBSD version from five months ago by the same author:
https://it-notes.dragas.net/2023/04/03/make-your-own-vpn-wireguard-ipv6-and-ad-blocking-included/
also in recent news: https://it-notes.dragas.net/2024/12/28/i-almost-died-for-a-full-sentry-database/