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Using this for Redmine on t2.nano.
Wanted a micro/small instance which can host a low traffic Redmine instance. The Bitnami AMIs on GNU/Linux don't allow you to select t2 instances. So my next obvious choice was FreeBSD which has a recent version of Redmine in its repositories. I am delighted to see the CPU credits getting saved as the OS itself is not utilizing significant CPU. Next, I can jail Redmine on this and upgrade to the next version of Redmine(when it is released) without affecting the users! Pros: Uses UFS, not ZFS - Ideal for low end servers. Is lean, not too many applications installed using pkg. Suggested Improvements: "su -" works without password, instead use sudo/doas.
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Performance is incredible
The performance on this AMI is incredible. My new FreeBSD server, which is half the size of my old Ubuntu server, is incredibly fast and efficient. This OS uses a lot less RAM. Everything was already configured, so I just had to run a few lines, install some packages, and voila--a Minecraft server that barely uses 250MB when in use!!
Great job
Great job, But ZFS is preferred to instead of UFS. Any plan to enable ZFS filesystem in the future version?
How to add IPs
1. Add additional private IPs to your instance in EC2 dashboard (optional, one for each Elastic IP)
2. Find out what gateway you're currently using (look at first line under gateway):
> netstat -rn
3. Edit: /etc/rc.conf
> vi /etc/rc.conf
comment-out this line:
ifconfig_DEFAULT="SYNCDHCP"
Add these lines, adjust as necessary (subnet seems to always be /20):
defaultrouter="172.31.48.1"
ifconfig_xn0="inet 172.31.xx.xx/20"
ifconfig_xn0_alias0="inet 172.31.xx.xx/20"
4. Shutdown instance
> shutdown -p now
5. Create new Elastic IP(s) in EC2 dashboard and point them to your private IP(s)
6. Start instance
works as expected
take note to login as ec2-user. Also connecting EBS storage appears to be /dev/x*** or something like that.
10.2 - Excellent, flawless
Very glad to see these images provided. Super quick to get a host up and running. No surprises, out of box config was great.
Great job
Thanks to your hard work, we can all now enjoy FreeBSD on AWS. FreeBSD with its packet filter simply rocks on Amazon, this was a long time coming. And finally wait is over.
fantastic
Thanks to Colin Percival we can have a freebsd instance in amazon, it works like a champ as a regular fisical machine
Works great for my use!
I needed an extra offsite DNS slave server so this seemed like a great candidate. Was easy to set up and I am setting up another DNS master now.
Great option for a BSD host
A quick and easy way to have a server running FreeBSD.
If you want to have a FreeBSD server on the Internet, this is a great option. The deployment is fast, the version is the latest, and the installation of additional packages (via pkg) is very fast.
In a very short time I installed my favorite packages from CPAN and I run a Perl application in HTTPS, with a MongoDB database,. And an easy firewall configuration.
The only thing is that FreeBSD is not as visible in the list of available operating systems. It would be great if Amazon created a category for the BSD systems to let them in evidence.