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Upgrading OpenBSD From 6.5 To 6.6

A happy news gotten. OpenBSD has released 6.6 (What's New), the new one 😊 It's become by far simpler thanks to also new sysupgrade! Almost all what is necessary for upgrading is to run several commands. Here is a set of the…

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OpenBSD Upgrade 7.6 to 7.7

The OpenBSD project released 7.7 of their OS on today, 28 Apr 2025, as their 58th release 💫 What's New | Changelog This post shows how to upgrade OpenBSD 7.6 to 7.7. The steps are based on their official great guide. Here is a step-by-step guide with a…

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OpenBSD Upgrade 6.8 To 6.9

Next OpenBSD release, 6.9, has been published on 1 May 2021✨ The 6.9 Song is "Vetera Novis", which means "old new" in Latin. Almost all what to do is thankfully managed by sysupgrade (which appeared in 6.6) and its automatic process. In this upgrade, PostgreSQL's…

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Upgrading OpenBSD From 6.3 To 6.4

This post is about upgrading OpenBSD from 6.3 to 6.4. What is necessary is to locate bsd.rd of the target version in the root directory and run it on boot. bsd.rd is "a special ramdisk kernel." This tutorial is available…

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NAS Appliances 2–8 bay units, CPU/RAM choices, apps, drive bays, and expansion strategies.
Home Server Hardware Small form‑factor builds, ECC memory considerations, and quiet cooling for 24/7 uptime.
Self‑Hosted Platforms App catalogs, reverse proxies, SSL, DNS, and best practices for self‑hosting at home.
Plex Media Server Transcoding, hardware acceleration, libraries, remote access, and user management for Plex.
Jellyfin Open‑source media server setup, hardware decoding, plugins, and client apps for Jellyfin.
Unraid Parity array basics, cache pools, Docker/VMs on Unraid, and share performance tuning.
TrueNAS (CORE/Scale) ZFS‑based NAS with datasets, snapshots/replication, apps, and permissions in TrueNAS.
ZFS (Storage Pools) vdevs, ARC/L2ARC, scrubs, snapshots, and resiliency trade‑offs with ZFS pools.
RAID Levels RAID 0/1/5/6/10, parity overhead, drive mixing, and controller/HBA considerations.
Docker Containers Compose stacks, volumes, networking, and container lifecycle for self‑hosted apps.
Kubernetes (Homelab) K8s basics, helm charts, storage classes, and small‑cluster ops for homelabs.
Backup & Snapshots 3‑2‑1 strategies, offsite replication, snapshot schedules, and disaster recovery drills.

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