BoxyBSD
@BoxyBSD@mastodon.bsd.cafe  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

⚠️ News/Changes:

BoxyBSD will bring in a feature for more advanced users for our free boxes. Instead of only selecting a set of pre-defined BSD based images, you'll soon also be able to create your install simply from scratch with full remote access to your box. This lets you perform custom installations of #FreeBSD, #NetBSD, #OpenBSD, #DragonflyBSD, #MidnightBSD but also of some other niche systems like #illumos

Unfortunately, this might still take some time and fully relies on the spare time of @gyptazy.

#freeVPS#VPS#BSD#Box#BoxyBSD #gyptazy #opensource #education #community #foss #runbsd #hosting #freehosting #learning #ipv6
BoxyBSD
@BoxyBSD@mastodon.bsd.cafe  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

⚠️ News/Changes:

BoxyBSD will bring in a feature for more advanced users for our free boxes. Instead of only selecting a set of pre-defined BSD based images, you'll soon also be able to create your install simply from scratch with full remote access to your box. This lets you perform custom installations of #FreeBSD, #NetBSD, #OpenBSD, #DragonflyBSD, #MidnightBSD but also of some other niche systems like #illumos

Unfortunately, this might still take some time and fully relies on the spare time of @gyptazy.

#freeVPS#VPS#BSD#Box#BoxyBSD #gyptazy #opensource #education #community #foss #runbsd #hosting #freehosting #learning #ipv6
BoxyBSD
@BoxyBSD@mastodon.bsd.cafe  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

Hello to our friends in Singapore 🇸🇬!

We’re happy to announce that we just opened up a new POP in Sin1, SG to come even closer to you! What does it mean?! IP-Space in Singapore including GEO objects & lower latencies in your area 🥳

Thanks to Route64 and @gyptazy !

#RUNBSD#FreeBSD#OpenBSD#NetBSD#BSD#BSDHosting#Hosting#VM#VPS#IPv6#BGP#Singapore#BoxyBSD
BoxyBSD
@BoxyBSD@mastodon.bsd.cafe  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

Hello to our friends in Singapore 🇸🇬!

We’re happy to announce that we just opened up a new POP in Sin1, SG to come even closer to you! What does it mean?! IP-Space in Singapore including GEO objects & lower latencies in your area 🥳

Thanks to Route64 and @gyptazy !

#RUNBSD#FreeBSD#OpenBSD#NetBSD#BSD#BSDHosting#Hosting#VM#VPS#IPv6#BGP#Singapore#BoxyBSD
BoxyBSD
@BoxyBSD@mastodon.bsd.cafe  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

Did you notice? The registration was temporary open today and we welcome all new users! 🥳

While we still have a plenty of free resources, we might switch from an open registration model to a recommendation / mentor model where already present users can invite new users.

This is not yet fix but a possibility to avoid misusage and abuse where our primary goal is still to provide resources for people interested into BSD based systems. Maybe also closer integrations with BSD communities like the BSD Cafe ( @stefano) could be an approach.

#freevps #free #education #ipv6 #hosting #bhyve #proxmox #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #runbsd #boxybsd @gyptazy
BoxyBSD
@BoxyBSD@mastodon.bsd.cafe  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

Did you notice? The registration was temporary open today and we welcome all new users! 🥳

While we still have a plenty of free resources, we might switch from an open registration model to a recommendation / mentor model where already present users can invite new users.

This is not yet fix but a possibility to avoid misusage and abuse where our primary goal is still to provide resources for people interested into BSD based systems. Maybe also closer integrations with BSD communities like the BSD Cafe ( @stefano) could be an approach.

#freevps #free #education #ipv6 #hosting #bhyve #proxmox #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #runbsd #boxybsd @gyptazy
Børge
@noexec@mastodon.bsd.cafe  ·  activity timestamp last month

So this is where my peeps at!

Hello everyone, my name is Børge and I am happy to get back into the BSD world, though only for personal projects for now.

I was a sysadmin for a small telco a while ago and we used Solaris/SPARC and FreeBSD/i386 for our servers, while I tried my hand at OpenBSD for my personal server. The network was all Cisco at the beginning, with some Juniper equipment for peering at the end but I did not get any experience with those unfortunately. I do have a certificate in SS7 somewhere, the signaling protocol telcos use for voice calls, but have forgotten pretty much all of it.

These days work is "cloud everything", which all seems to be based on Linux-something.

Reminiscing of "the good, old days" I wondered if I could run a BSD server anywhere to tap into my sysadmin background a little, or if I would have to use some Linux distribution.

Searching for BSD hosting providers, I am very happy I discovered #OpenBSDAms which I use for OpenBSD hosting (obviously).

Then I came across #BoxyBSD where I was lucky enough to get a FreeBSD instance.

Last but not least I came across a cheap VPS provider where I could run NetBSD. I don't mention the provider because I'm not sure I can recommend them yet.

I've been on Mastodon a little while, mostly reading as there is so much of interest to find here, though also because I'm quite shy, but hope to maybe post something about what I do now and then.

I really like all the *BSDs, they just do things in a way that seems sensible to me, so being here feels a lot like coming home.

So that's me a little about me. #introduction

How are you?

#OpenBSD#FreeBSD#NetBSD#RUNBSD
Børge
@noexec@mastodon.bsd.cafe  ·  activity timestamp last month

So this is where my peeps at!

Hello everyone, my name is Børge and I am happy to get back into the BSD world, though only for personal projects for now.

I was a sysadmin for a small telco a while ago and we used Solaris/SPARC and FreeBSD/i386 for our servers, while I tried my hand at OpenBSD for my personal server. The network was all Cisco at the beginning, with some Juniper equipment for peering at the end but I did not get any experience with those unfortunately. I do have a certificate in SS7 somewhere, the signaling protocol telcos use for voice calls, but have forgotten pretty much all of it.

These days work is "cloud everything", which all seems to be based on Linux-something.

Reminiscing of "the good, old days" I wondered if I could run a BSD server anywhere to tap into my sysadmin background a little, or if I would have to use some Linux distribution.

Searching for BSD hosting providers, I am very happy I discovered #OpenBSDAms which I use for OpenBSD hosting (obviously).

Then I came across #BoxyBSD where I was lucky enough to get a FreeBSD instance.

Last but not least I came across a cheap VPS provider where I could run NetBSD. I don't mention the provider because I'm not sure I can recommend them yet.

I've been on Mastodon a little while, mostly reading as there is so much of interest to find here, though also because I'm quite shy, but hope to maybe post something about what I do now and then.

I really like all the *BSDs, they just do things in a way that seems sensible to me, so being here feels a lot like coming home.

So that's me a little about me. #introduction

How are you?

#OpenBSD#FreeBSD#NetBSD#RUNBSD
Dendrobatus Azureus
@Dendrobatus_Azureus@mastodon.bsd.cafe  ·  activity timestamp 4 months ago

Don't tell me you still don't have a boxyBSD VM. Request one while they last

Here's the status of the hypervisors running boxyBSD VMs

@gyptazy

https://boxybsd.com/status/

.🖋️ #bash#freeBSD#boxyBSD #sh #zsh #ksh #csh  #netBSD#openBSD#POSIX

The screencap shows a terminal screen with a black background and white text. At the top, there is a status bar displaying the time (22:12), battery level (81%), and temperature (27°). The terminal window is titled "BoxyBSD" in a stylized font. The command line shows the user "guest" logged in to the system "mgmt-boxybsd" with the command "cat status.md" being executed. The terminal output includes a "Status" section listing hypervisors with their locations and latency times, such as "virt01: 42.1 ms (Location: France, Ro)" and "virt09: 277. ms (Location: Japan, Toky)." Below this, there is a "[looking glass]" section with miscellaneous information like "Website: Online," "Matrix Bot: Online," "Provisioning: Enabled," and "gyptazy services: Online." The "Statistics" section shows "Boxes provisioned: 500+," "OS Images: 7," and "Uptime: 99.9%." At the bottom, there is a note about contacting support and the system's creation date (2025-04-12 11:59:34.695945). Ovis2-8B 🌱 Energy used: 0.310 Wh
The screencap shows a terminal screen with a black background and white text. At the top, there is a status bar displaying the time (22:12), battery level (81%), and temperature (27°). The terminal window is titled "BoxyBSD" in a stylized font. The command line shows the user "guest" logged in to the system "mgmt-boxybsd" with the command "cat status.md" being executed. The terminal output includes a "Status" section listing hypervisors with their locations and latency times, such as "virt01: 42.1 ms (Location: France, Ro)" and "virt09: 277. ms (Location: Japan, Toky)." Below this, there is a "[looking glass]" section with miscellaneous information like "Website: Online," "Matrix Bot: Online," "Provisioning: Enabled," and "gyptazy services: Online." The "Statistics" section shows "Boxes provisioned: 500+," "OS Images: 7," and "Uptime: 99.9%." At the bottom, there is a note about contacting support and the system's creation date (2025-04-12 11:59:34.695945). Ovis2-8B 🌱 Energy used: 0.310 Wh
The screencap shows a terminal screen with a black background and white text. At the top, there is a status bar displaying the time (22:12), battery level (81%), and temperature (27°). The terminal window is titled "BoxyBSD" in a stylized font. The command line shows the user "guest" logged in to the system "mgmt-boxybsd" with the command "cat status.md" being executed. The terminal output includes a "Status" section listing hypervisors with their locations and latency times, such as "virt01: 42.1 ms (Location: France, Ro)" and "virt09: 277. ms (Location: Japan, Toky)." Below this, there is a "[looking glass]" section with miscellaneous information like "Website: Online," "Matrix Bot: Online," "Provisioning: Enabled," and "gyptazy services: Online." The "Statistics" section shows "Boxes provisioned: 500+," "OS Images: 7," and "Uptime: 99.9%." At the bottom, there is a note about contacting support and the system's creation date (2025-04-12 11:59:34.695945). Ovis2-8B 🌱 Energy used: 0.310 Wh