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at anachronauts.club we use freebsd + molly brown, with warp for feed aggregation. it works pretty well, no complaints and default config is sane. if you've got untrusted users, you'll need to restrict dynamic content.

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~littlejohn wrote (thread):

On an entirely unrelated note I want to say that I didn't know about anachronauts.club and that I am now your number #1 groupie! IRL I've been nursing a small collection of old computers since way before you could get a heart attack looking at ebay prices, and I'm actually kind of professionally involved with retrocomputing, too, so you have no idea how happy I am when I hear about one of these places! Do you guys hang out in an IRC channel somewhere, or do you have a bulletin board, or...? I'd love to drop in some time and say hi!

~littlejohn wrote (thread):

Oh, cool, thanks!

I'd actually planned to go with FreeBSD for Smog, too, and eventually decided against it thinking that Ubuntu LTS would be a more common target and it would therefore be easier for me to set up a server for a technology I'd only used on the client side before. Big mistake...

Can I bother you with two more questions?

1. I see Molly Brown is not in the ports tree, but I hear it has good support for FreeBSD. I've noticed you have a port at https://anachronauts.club/repos/ports/tree/www/molly-brown -- is that what you're running?

2. Do you run it in a jail? Should I even bother with any of that for a server with no untrusted users (no users other than myself, in fact)? I'm super comfortable with jails, I use them for development all the time, I'm just not sure if this is something that's relevant for deployment in this scenario.

Thank you very much!