BSSG, Snac & NetBSD

Published on: 2025-09-03 20:25:08 by Andrew Pamment

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I decided to change things up again... I wanted to play with snac, and saw I would need another LX zone on my OmniOS server (yeah I switched OpenIndiana to OmniOS for LX zones), and wasn't sure how hosting snac on my flakey internet connection would work.

Anyway, I decided to spin up a little 1GB vultr instance, and this time put NetBSD on it (one of my other favourite Operating Systems), and I bought a domain.

I also thought I may as well move my blog over (even though I rarely update it). Rather than use HTMLy I wanted to try BSSG - and it works well!

So here we are, NetBSD running on Vultr, with snac and BSSG served via nginx.

It's been fun setting it up, though I did use pkgsrc. 1Gb of RAM is enough to build all the things I use with the exception of certbot. Yes, certbot. It pulls in a python module that appears to be dependent on Rust, which means Rust and LLVM need to be built - for certbot.

I used getssl instead.

Moving my posts from HTMLy to BSSG was easy too (as they're in markdown already).