Mastodawn

As I lost sponsoring (due to a whole location shutdown) for my @[email protected] & @[email protected] in North America, I’m looking for sponsors in US and Canada.

The requirements are pretty low:

NO IPv4
min. IPv6 /48 subnet routed
Network (ARIN/RIPE/…) should be personalized (netname, abuse,..)
Optionally: BYOIP
ARPA delegation for the net to my nameservers
min. 2x 500G disk space (SATA SSD or better)
min. 48G memory per node
bandwidth doesn’t really matter (100Mbit is fine)
Remote MGMT to systems

Sponsors are being listed on #BoxyBSD and #BoxedTux on the sponsoring page and announced on LinkedIn, Fediverse and X as new sponsors.

#bsd #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #openindiana #education #learning #opensource

gyptazy May 4

Happy to share that #BoxyBSD remains up!

Recently I got asked about my @[email protected] project, which offers free VPS instances of vary #BSD based systems for learning and educational purposes and I'm happy to share that this projects remains available. Several things could finally be clarified to continue this service to make sure people can learn and practice on real #FreeBSD, #OpenBSD, #NetBSD systems to #RUNBSD. Also, BoxyBSD starts moving over to #Sylve on #bhyve.

But not only that! We could also get some more new resources and locations to scale and this also brings up another new project for #free Linux #VPS instances at https://boxedtux.com (Fedi: @[email protected]) where people will be able to learn and practice on different #Linux based distributions (e.g., #Debian, #Ubuntu, #Rocky,...). BoxedTux utilizes #Proxmox clusters as a foundation.

Hope you like this small update... Over & out!

#freeVPS #VPS #VM #Hosting #education #learning #learningplatform #service #opensource #BoxedTux

Marek Apr 19

I'm currently working on adding some FreeBSD support to my crazytrace program.
I rely heavily on Codeberg's Woodpecker CI - unfortunately, however, this CI doesn't support FreeBSD.
But BoxyBSD was kind enough to provide me with a second VM, where a FreeBSD Woodpecker agent is now running, giving me a private FreeBSD CI for my projects.
It seems to be working very well.

https://codeberg.org/Codeberg-CI/feedback/issues/297
https://ci.codeberg.org/repos/13147/pipeline/313/3
https://codeberg.org/mark22k/crazytrace/src/commit/a28170353e40918f7a64c6a00e1a91adad70ea22/.woodpecker/build-freebsd.yaml

#FreeBSD #Programming #Codeberg #BoxyBSD #WoodpeckerCI

FreeBSD Support?

Howdy, I'd like to have support for FreeBSD. I tried to get the woodpecker-agent to work on my FreeBSD server myself but failed. It seems to contain just too many Linux specifics. So if anyone knows how to do this, I am willing to provide hosting of a FreeBSD agent for this (ipv6 only thoug...

Codeberg.org

Marek Apr 12

I finally got a @BoxyBSD VM today. The installation using the ISO went smoothly.
However, writing firewall rules in pf instead of nftables still takes some practice.
I hope I’ll be able to port and test my crazytrace program on FreeBSD.

#FreeBSD #BoxyBSD #PF #nftables #BSDNewbie

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BoxyBSD Jan 30

Pssssst!!! @gyptazy hase some invite codes for #BoxyBSD! Get your #free #VPS at @BoxyBSD and run #FreeBSD, #NetBSD or #OpenBSD! But it's limited - better be quick!

#FOSDEM #FOSDEM2026 #Brussels #Belgium #RUNBSD #BSD #Community #OpenSource @gyptazy

gyptazy Jan 30

It's #FOSDEM time again!

Happy to meet you all again and you can't really miss me! Just poke me - happy about chats!

#RUNBSD, do #opensource, chats about #Proxmox #ProxLB and #PegaProx or anything else like #BoxyBSD or business related content at #credativ!

BoxyBSD Jan 25

Still looking for an invite code for #BoxyBSD for free VPS instances?

You can grab an invite for the @BoxyBSD project at the #FOSDEM - just watch out for @gyptazy - you can't really miss him!

Make sure to visit the #BSDDevroom managed by @fosdembsd!

#RUNBSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #BSD #BSDCommunity #FOSDEM2026 #fosdem26 #opensource #freevps #hosting #education #brussels #belgium #conference

BoxyBSD Jan 22

Advertisement: We are happy to welcome our new sponsor at #BoxyBSD: ST-Hosting.com

ST-Hosting.com stands for performance, stability, and pragmatic solutions and hosting like:

- LXC & KVM servers on AMD EPYC, Ryzen, Intel Xeon systems
- Fair pricing and direct support from Germany
- Hosting made in Germany

We’re excited to have https://st-hosting.com on board! You can immediately start to provision your BSD based boxes (like #FreeBSD, #OpenBSD, #NetBSD,...) at BoxyBSD in our new location in Germany, Nuremberg. Also, stay tuned for #Fosdem ;) Thanks a lot!

cc: @gyptazy
#RUNBSD #BSD #OpenSource #Hosting