I enjoyed my foray into trying FreeBSD for my personal server. There's something cool, clean, simple and "punk rock" about it. But I gave up as my main pain points were:
- PM2 was buggy on FreeBSD, which I used to manage my processes
- An alternative, using `rc.d` to run daemons was just so hard to get logs working.
- The firewall required too much self configuration to get it right with all the best security practices (ie. What does one do with ICMP.) I was missing something like a template with the defaults that come with UFW, for instance.
- PM2 was buggy on FreeBSD, which I used to manage my processes
- An alternative, using `rc.d` to run daemons was just so hard to get logs working.
- The firewall required too much self configuration to get it right with all the best security practices (ie. What does one do with ICMP.) I was missing something like a template with the defaults that come with UFW, for instance.