Technical Articles
Practical FreeBSD guides and checklists from our engineering team. Real-world server knowledge covering Nginx on FreeBSD, monitoring with built-in tools, security, and performance optimization.
Technical deep-dives on FreeBSD production infrastructure. These are hands-on guides written from real-world experience -- covering ZFS tuning, nginx optimization, SSL automation, monitoring, and the practical trade-offs of running FreeBSD in production.
ZFS Tuning for Production FreeBSD Servers
Practical ZFS tuning guide: ARC sizing, sysctl tunables, recordsize, compression, L2ARC, SLOG, and the documentation pitfalls that trip up even experienced admins.
Why FreeBSD Over Linux for Production Servers
Engineering reasons to choose FreeBSD: the integrated OS model, network stack performance, first-class ZFS, jails for lightweight isolation, BSD licensing, and upgrade predictability.
Nginx Performance Tuning on FreeBSD
A FreeBSD-specific guide to optimizing Nginx: kqueue event handling, sendfile, kernel tuning via sysctl and loader.conf, worker configuration, gzip, and caching for production workloads.
FreeBSD Server Monitoring Guide
How to monitor FreeBSD servers using built-in tools like systat, vmstat, sockstat, and gstat, plus setting up Prometheus and Grafana for long-term metrics and alerting.
SSL/TLS with Let's Encrypt on FreeBSD & Nginx
Step-by-step guide to securing your FreeBSD web server with free SSL certificates. Package installation, Nginx configuration, automated renewal with getssl, and security headers.
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