Finally took the jump. I went from multiple years of running Debian Linux to BSD, FreeBSD 13 for my Desktop since about a month and just recently OpenBSD 7.0 on my OVH VPS. I still do run a Debian 11 VM in bhyve, but will get to that later. Even though Linux has been my daily driver at work in the last 20 years and in my spare time when I was not using Windows only software (read games), the last couple of years have left some dents in my feelings toward Linux.

At the time I first set-up the blog via the App Platform I deliberately choose to not enable auto-deploy. But now that it’s all up and running it be best to enable this flag. Having a commit pushed into the master branch is indicative of new content being available it’s better to automate the deployment, instead of me connecting to DO and clicking the deploy button manually. As the static-website is published via the cloudflare CDN I’m just wondering how fast the Cloudflare cache will be at clearing it’s caching for this static site.

With the major incident that happend at the Strasbourgh site of OVH I lost my VPS that was hosting this blog. Being this a personal blog I did not invest in an HA setup and went with the lowest VPS tier available to keep costs at a minumum. OVH has started working non stop on recovering their site ad Strasbourgh from the start, but from the information I received it doesn’t seem like I’ll have a new VPS soon unless I order a new one in another of their datacenters.

After having owned a VPS since some time, it was necesary to put it to use. So let’s start by creating a simple website, wich auto deploys updates when changes are published to a git repository,