CIRCLE WITH A DOT

My redesigned personal website (https://hofstede.it) is now less than 1 MB of total data transfer. Including pictures and fonts!

No trackers, no bloat, just HTML, CSS and very little JS.

#1mbclub #website #webdevelopment

@AlienJay @tux Wir haben zumindest mal keinen Instanz-Block (also burningboard.net wurde nicht von einer größeren Instanz geblockt).

@tux @AlienJay Ich kann so direkt nichts ungewöhnliches sehen. Mit einem konkreten Beispiel könnte ich schauen, was technisch passiert (User geblockt, Instanz blockiert, Netzwerk Problem o.Ä.)

That Hackernews (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46934266) effect on my blog article is crazier than anything, I've seen so far. Just wow, I had not anticipated, that such a niche topic would create that much traction.

#hackernews #blog #selfhosting #grafana

The BGP article is also available on the Geminispace for those who prefer the lightweight web:

gemini://gemini.hofstede.it/bgp_routing_asn_freebsd.gmi

No tracking, no JavaScript, just text. Accessible via clients like Lagrange or Amfora.

#gemini #smallweb #FreeBSD #geminispace

@drixter great place to be!

@cd_run_code It all was a slow escallation from the silly idea "What if I could be my own provider" to that result, I have now .. But was an amazing learning opportinity!

New blog post: Running your own Autonomous System on FreeBSD.

Got an AS number and IPv6 /48 via RIPE, set up a FreeBSD BGP router with FRR, two upstreams, and built GRE/GIF tunnels ti bring my own globally routable addresses to servers at different providers.

The interesting part: dual-FIB policy routing lets FreeBSD jails speak from both provider and BGP addresses simultaneously.

Running Your Own AS: BGP on FreeBSD with FRR, GRE Tunnels, and Policy Routing

How I obtained my own AS number and IPv6 prefix, set up a FreeBSD BGP router with FRR, and built a tunnel overlay to bring globally routable addresses to ser...

Larvitz Blog (blog.hofstede.it)

#FreeBSD #BGP #IPv6 #Networking #SelfHosted