PaulBSD August ‘22 updates After 2 years with no news, there was time to deliver some news and updates about PaulBSD platform and software. Infrastructure machines Starting in late 2020, instances in Scaleway were migrated to the Contabo which is a german hosting service based in Nurnberg, DE for its primary site and in the US. It delivers for PaulBSD a reliable instance (now 2 years without any downtime) for a relatively low price: ...
PaulBSD migration from Scaleway to Proxmox
PaulBSD migration from Scaleway to Proxmox As announced by Scaleway on April 16th, ARM instances will EOL on end 2020. PaulBSD infrastructure is based on one ARM64-8GB instance since 1 year with focus to migrate all in house applications. So it was decided to migrate to Proxmox solution at home. For reaching this goal, a new Intel NUC7i5BNH has been checked out on April. Some of it specs below : ...
NetBSD 9.0 update
NetBSD 9.0 update As the new major release of NetBSD being rolled, PaulBSD upgraded legacy production in Normandy to NetBSD 9.0 which provides new fun features as below : Hardware accelerated virtualization based on NVMM New version of NPF for packet filtering New ARM based boards Stable ZFS implementation Full changelog is available here As said in the past, services hosted on NetBSD legacy hardware will be migrated on both amd64 and arm64 cloud instances at Scaleway. ...
PaulBSD Web Services
PaulBSD Web Services PaulBSD.com provides many services like : Websites hosting Virtual services housing Free consulting exchange against Beers and “Apéro” ! Web cloud services like Nextcloud and git accounts Inspection and report of spamming/phishing or generally abusing sites Legal reverse-engineering of abusing proprietary solutions to be replaced by open solution All consulting services can be provided in Normandy (available in English or French) and websites housing can be provided in any cloud platforms ...
PaulBSD Infrastructure
PaulBSD Infrastructure PaulBSD.com is a mixed infrastructure made of on-premise part based in Normandy, and cloud instances made upon scaleway.com in Amsterdam / object storage in Paris. PaulBSD infrastructure main regions are : Caen (Legacy production) Saint-Lô (Backups) Amsterdam (Production) Paris (Object storage) Up to 80% of the applications are managed by SaltStack, some in-house applications / scripts / tools written in Python 3 and Golang for back services, and HTML/CSS/JS on front services. ...