So... ever since I learned about this thing called "Unix" I was fascinated and well, eventually landed with FreeBSD (obviously!
). Here's the thing though... when it comes to clients then I very much prefer Windows, but when it comes to servers... yah, I take great pride in having 2 online FreeBSD servers ("VPS") of my own: master & backup.
And when it gets to this I like nothing more than to get the best of
both, at the same time. Did you know that Windows ships with OpenSSH by default? (
\windows\system32\OpenSSH?). I prefer using that over PuTTY to be honest, but then... on Windows 10 I'd be 'hijacking' my PowerShell window. Well...
not when you get yourself Windows terminal (even works on Windows 10!) =>
I
seriously enjoy this... I fire up the terminal and end up in PowerShell, but then I can simply press a key combo like ctrl + shift + 6 (or ), resulting in a logon to either my Zefiris VPS server or my Hyper-V playground. Both running FreeBSD 15 (
obviously! 
). (I can also right click on the pinned icon to fire up my SSH connection right away, but that's kinda offtopic, no?
).
Since OP asks for specs... My main server 'Zefiris' (shown above) has a nice 4 cores, 8Gb worth of memory and 100Gb SSD storage. I can actually use this to host a (modded) Minecraft server while still having enough juice left for other tasks like e-mail (Postfix FTW!), DNS ("PowerDNS") and of course Apache (+ mod_mono
).
But because I take 'tech' quite seriously I also keep a spare backup. "Dragoon" => 1 core, 2Gb memory and also 100Gb worth of storage. It serves as my DNS & e-mail backup, and it's also my test environment to check out source updates (I always test system updates).
The best part is that my VPS provider also supports virtual networks, in other words: my servers have a "local" network connection between them which doesn't get taxed on data consumption.
The ideal way to fully take advantage of the ports collection on my main server, and then hosting the build packages over HTTP for my backup server to collect & use (powered by
ports-mgmt/portmaster).
Oh the irony guys... Back in the days, the early days pre-Solaris even I kinda mocked the Linux Slackware distribution because.. what were they thinking?! Building all the packages yourself? I mean, you don't do that on Windows, right?!
Yet fast forward to here and now and I
heavily rely on the ports collection myself. Because if I'm using open source I prefer to make sure that the source code actually means something.
So yah, that's my story
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