Blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to FreeBSD

Re:Blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to F... by toast0 on Thursday May 21, 2026 @06:16PM (#48229503)

I pay $35/month for a dedicated server for my nothing webpages. One the one hand, I could really host at home for $0/month extra. Or on a VPS for $5/month. I do need my own thing because I run a network testing tool that needs some amount of direct access.

On the other hand, dedicated servers are more fun, even if the cpus I get for $35/month are ancient. Is it $30/month fun? Probably not, but it's near zero given my situation.

At least I'm sensible and don't have an actual colo space to visit.

In the unlikely event I go viral, I'm pretty sure my server can manage serving https at 1gbps, and that's plenty. Maybe TLS is too much though, the cpus are too old for AESNI.

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Re:Blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to F... by not_kurt_godel on Thursday May 21, 2026 @06:55PM (#48229821)

Good on ya. Personally I'm happier with my extra ~$6k, sparing of however many hours of pointless maintenance work over the years, and 100% uptime over past/present/future even if I go into a coma.

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Re:Blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to F... by nozzlegear on Thursday May 21, 2026 @07:24PM (#48230017)

> and 100% uptime over past/present/future

On GitHub?!

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Re:Blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to F... by not_kurt_godel on Thursday May 21, 2026 @07:52PM (#48230214)

S3+CloudFront. GitHub Page's mere 99.9999999% uptime is only for the weak-minded, of course.

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Re:Blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to F... by Gud on Friday May 22, 2026 @02:44AM (#48232781)

You are vastly overstating how much maintenance a FreeBSD box has.

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