Developer migrates blog from 10-year-old Ubuntu 16.04 to FreeBSD
Original: Blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to FreeBSD
Why This Matters
Demonstrates practical migration from legacy Linux systems to modern BSD infrastructure
A developer migrated their blog from a Digital Ocean Ubuntu 16.04 VPS running for 10 years to a FreeBSD system on Hetzner. The old server cost $13 monthly with outdated security, while the new setup costs under €6 with better specs.
Bruno Croci documented migrating his blog from a decade-old Ubuntu 16.04 LTS system to FreeBSD on Hetzner infrastructure. The old Digital Ocean VPS had 2GB RAM, one vCPU, and 50GB storage for $13 monthly, running in NYC. Ubuntu 16.04 has been out of support for 5 years, creating security vulnerabilities. The new Hetzner setup costs under €6 monthly with double the memory and CPU, located in Germany. The original stack used nginx 1.10.3 serving static sites generated by Hugo. The old system achieved 1,491 days uptime (roughly 4 years) before shutdown. The developer chose FreeBSD to explore jails technology with Bastille and conducted site load benchmarks during the migration process.