I've recently decided to host a website on the Raspberry Pi 4 with a focus on NetBSD. This is to gather some of the stuff I've written here and elsewhere in a self-contained archive, and to allow me to indulge in fun stuff and off-topic considerations which wouldn't deserve a dedicated post on a wiki or a forum.

I have already mirrored some of my UnitedBSD wiki post which I found most useful and added few new entries (more likely to come, if time permits) which you could be interested into, namely that on ZFS & NetBSD, and that on FFSv2 snapshots and full system backups.

I'll stress how this is very experimental for the moment. While I've already hosted stuff (mail, xmpp) at home using a dynamic DNS service provider, I also know how unreliable this solution can be: connection systematically going down, sudden power outages resulting in filesystem corruption, SD cards being themselves a nightmare. Were the situation to turn out unbearable, I'll move the whole thing to SDF.

Feedback and contributions are welcome. You can write in plain text (I write my posts in vi), send me it by mail and be accounted as author.

Nice!

  • My Pi4s live in fanless Pi-sized heatsink cases and they stay below 60°C even if keeping all cores busy over a long period (build.sh release). No fan means 1 moving part less to fail...

  • Add an .onion address to be reachable over a known constant address even if your ddns provider has hiccups?

    yeti My Pi4s live in fanless Pi-sized heatsink cases and they stay below 60°C even if keeping all cores busy over a long period (build.sh release). No fan means 1 moving part less to fail...

    Yes, I also have pi-sized aluminum heat sinks. and I'm overclocking it with:

    over_voltage=6
arm_boost=1
arm_freq=2147

    It handled building LLVM and Rust, so virtually it can do anything 😛

    Add an .onion address to be reachable over a known constant address even if your ddns provider has hiccups?

    Could you point me to some reference on the topic? I'm completely ignorant about Tor 😉

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        JuvenalUrbino It handled building LLVM and Rust

        Just curious, what was the rust compile time on this thing?
        Also, you know you can build rust with builtin llvm, right?

          The fact that this project:

          • Has an awesome domain name
          • Is self hosted on a SBC running NetBSD
          • Uses bozohttpd as the webserver
          • Has a minimalist design and implementation whilst keeping a unique retro unix feel

          Makes me wanna dance in binary like

          01110111 01101001 01100111 01100111 01101100 01100101
01110111 01101001 01100111 01100111 01101100 01100101

          🕺💃🕶 ~

          Thank you for making and sharing this! (tickles all my geeky molecules inside of me)

            oui Makes me wanna dance

            Try:

            $ dc -e 2i1000000000101000100000010111000110111100101001001000000010000001011100011011110010111100100000001000000010100001101111001011110000101000100000010111110010100100100000001000000010000000100000011111000010000000100000001000000010000000101000010111110000101000100000001011110010000000100000001000000010000000101111001000000101110000100000001000000010000000100000010111000000101000100000000010100010000001100011011010000110000100100000001000000110001101101000011000010010000000100000011000110110100001100001000010100010000000001010P