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  • Self Hosted: Episode 8 - External Services

    Software Used: * OpenBSD 7.7 Overview Now that we have some services in our self hosted environment, we may want to allow access from outside our environment.

  • Self Hosted: Episode 7 - Email

    Software Used: * OpenBSD 7.7 (as VM) * OpenSMTPD (part of OS) * Dovecot 2.3.21.1 (from ports) * RoundcubeMail 1.6.11 (from ports) * twofactor_webauthn 1.3.0 Overview Email is a surprisingly vast and…

  • Self Hosted: Episode 6 - Authentication

    Software used: * FreeBSD 14.2 (jail) * OpenLDAP 2.6 (from ports) It has been said: "Three people can keep a secret, if two are dead." Fortunately, it doesn't need to come to that.

  • Self Hosted: Episode 5 - Logging

    Software Used: * FreeBSD 14.2 (jail) Introduction If you can't observe what is happening then you can't find and fix what is broken Setting up a logging server at this point may seem premature.

  • Self Hosted: Episode 3 - DNS/DHCP/NTP

    Used Software: * FreeBSD 14.2 (as jail) * ISC Bind 9.2.0 (from ports) * ISC DHCP 4.4 (from ports) Introduction It all begins with DNS...

  • Self Hosting: Episode 2 - Firewall

    Software Used: * OpenBSD 7.7 Introduction The firewall will separate the segments and provide protection for services that must cross the segment boundaries.