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From its birth at Sun, ZFS grew exponentially in popularity. Many were impressed by its revolutionary features, and ported it to run on their systems. Find out how more about its journey and the rise of OpenZFS in the second part of our series. Continue reading...

FreeBSD 13.0 imported OpenZFS 2.0 replacing the bespoke port that had served since 2007. The FreeBSD installer has an interface allowing ZFS as the root file system, allowing a bootable FreeBSD system on ZFS. Selecting the guided root on ZFS, install will permit graphical selection of disks to...

Did you know that Poudriere is not only a package building tool for FreeBSD, but it can also generate FreeBSD images? You can also use NanoBSD or, perhaps, assemble a bootable FreeBSD image by hand. This article will explore some of the ideas and tools required to start down the path of building...

One of the many powerful features of OpenZFS are snapshots. OpenZFS stands out in its snapshot design, providing powerful and easy-to-use tools for managing snapshots. Snapshots complement a backup strategy, as they are instantaneous and don’t require a backup window. Since snapshots are atomic...

Rank Performance Graph OS Outage hh:mm:ss Failed Req% DNS Connect First byte Total 1 www.choopa.com Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.255 0.003 0.024 0.025 2 Rackspace Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.479 0.006 0.014 0.015 3 www.dinahosting.com Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.211 0.081 0.162...

FreeBSD brings forward advanced networking, performance, security and compatibility features that are still missing in many other operating systems. Its focus on performance, networking, and storage, its ease of system administration, and its overall integration are features that make it the...

In the April 2021 survey we received responses from 1,212,139,815 sites across 264,469,666 unique domains and 10,939,637 web facing computers. This is an increase of 24,611,866 sites, 1,114,050 domains and 91,955 computers. nginx gained the largest number of sites this month increasing by 12.5...

With the release of FreeBSD 13, arm64 has been elevated to Tier 1 status. FreeBSD support for arm64 has grown steadily since the architecture was incorporated in 2015 based on work supported by the community, ARM and Marvell (then Cavium). Learn about processor performance, hardware factors, and...

Open source licensing is an integral part of any open source project. Understanding what the limitations of each type of licensing is is as much legal work as it is an art. In our most recent article we talk about the ease of the BSD licensing model and why you should consider it going forward...

FreeBSD iostat Understanding the Storage Subsystem and Disk I/O iostat provides a window into the i/o effort of the storage subsystem. You can use it to determine usage patterns, bottlenecks and poor behavior at a glance. It can produce data to support conclusions and suggest further avenues of...

Customizing FreeBSD Ports and Packages An easy introduction into the package manager that FreeBSD has to offer. Learn how to get access to binaries and how to compile them. Without a doubt, one of the most convenient tools of modern open-source operating systems is the package manager. The...

Rank Performance Graph OS Outage hh:mm:ss Failed Req% DNS Connect First byte Total 1 GoDaddy.com Inc Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.348 0.006 0.031 0.033 2 Rackspace Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.421 0.007 0.017 0.017 3 CWCS Managed Hosting Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.285 0.081...

In the March 2021 survey we received responses from 1,187,527,949 sites across 263,355,616 unique domains and 10,847,682 web-facing computers. This reflects a loss of 16,724,462 sites, but a gain of 313,561 domains and 81,076 computers. nginx gained 3.7 million sites this month and holds 35.3%...

The Next Level FreeBSD on arm64 in the Cloud FreeBSD/arm64 is the FreeBSD port to the 64-bit ARM architecture, also known as AArch64 or ARMv8. All supported FreeBSD releases include support for ARMv8 and there are many packages and ports (3rd party applications) available to support the...

History of ZFS Part 1: The Birth of ZFS and How it All Started This is part of our article series published as “History of OpenZFS”. Subscribe to our article series to find out more about the secrets of OpenZFS ZFS (or the Zettabyte File System) is approaching its 15th birthday, and over a...

Over 100,000 Outlook Web Access servers have been rebooted since Microsoft released security updates for the ProxyLogon remote code execution vulnerability. The subsequent flurry of reboot activity is likely indicative of many Microsoft Exchange servers being restarted after having security...

Around 3.6 million websites across 464,000 distinct domains were taken offline after the major fire at an OVHcloud datacenter site in Strasbourg overnight. More than 18% of the IP addresses attributed to OVH in Netcraft’s most recent Web Server Survey — which took place two weeks ago — were no...

Customizing the FreeBSD Kernel Learn more about customizing the build of the FreeBSD kernel and its loadable modules In this article, we will be looking at the various ways to customize the build of the FreeBSD kernel and its loadable modules. Understanding this process is invaluable for making...

This weekend, several days after the Patch Tuesday when Microsoft released fixes for the ProxyLogon vulnerability, Netcraft found more than 99,000 unpatched Outlook Web Access servers accessible on the internet — of which several thousand have clear evidence of one of more web shells installed...

Rank Performance Graph OS Outage hh:mm:ss Failed Req% DNS Connect First byte Total 1 www.choopa.com Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.242 0.005 0.027 0.027 2 Rackspace Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.433 0.011 0.024 0.024 3 Webair Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.299 0.069 0.139 0.139 4...