Month: January 2024

  • FreeBSD with two default routes on GCP

    I was excited to try GCP (Google Compute Platform) with FreeBSD since community images are available to deploy. DigitalOcean stopped supporting FreeBSD so I’ve moved on to GCP. In GCP’s Compute engine, if you need multiple interfaces, you must create a VM instance with multiple NICs at creation time — you cannot add a second…

  • Isolate websites on FreeBSD with Nginx, PHP-FPM, Acme.sh, MySQL

    Last updated on January 15, 2025. This article is for building a web server that isolates multiple websites to reduce threat exposure. Web applications are commonly vulnerable to compromise if they are not kept up-to-date. The goal is to limit lateral movement, keeping other websites and systems on that server unaffected. Busy servers running many…