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 not_kurt_godel on Thursday May 21, 2026 @08:01PM (#48230274)

I mean, obviously we're not gonna see eye-to-eye if you're talking about a non-static, non-hugo site, which was the subject of my comment.

I've owned and operated enough stacks e2e both personally and professionally to have gotten over the novelty. The less shit that can go wrong, the better. I sleep better at night not wondering whether any of the constant stream of IPs in my fail2ban log is wielding a yet-to-be-CVE'd zero-day, or finding out that my site has been down for 6 weeks because of some fucking stupid bug in the latest kernel patch or whatever.

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Re:Blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to F... by jadedragon942 on Thursday May 21, 2026 @11:45PM (#48231724)

Sorry to jump in... But why are you ssh'ing into your hosts over the open net? Why not tailscale? Why not wireguard?

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Re:Blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to F... by not_kurt_godel on Friday May 22, 2026 @12:18AM (#48231880)

Great question...the answer is I don't, because I don't have any web hosting servers, or even persistent app servers for that matter. I've built 99% serverless for 10 years now and it has been glorious. Will never go back to managing individual hosts ever again if I can help it.

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Re:Blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to F... by MrDOS on Friday May 22, 2026 @04:09AM (#48233259)

Assuming password authentication is disabled, why wouldn't you SSH into your hosts over the open net? Why Tailscale? Why Wireguard?

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Re:Blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to F... by vsgherzi on Friday May 22, 2026 @02:03AM (#48232536)

Good luck with that! I’ll enjoy my servers :)

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