FTR and in case anybody arrives here via search, here’s a working squid configuration that effectively caches packages forever (2 years) and meta information slightly less aggressively (four weeks):
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You have a FreeBSD VPS with a single IP and you wish to create a FreeBSD jail for additional security and/or isolation. For this write up I’ll illustrate how you can use a single VPS with a jail create on an internal IP with both NAT access and port-forwarding to the jail for specific ports (web, ssh, etc).
My private server is hosted at a small company in munich. This server is currently running FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE and has around 15 Jails running on it, most of them Apache Webserver with PHP application servers running some websites or blogs like this one and some other jails for major internet services like dns, mail, proxy server, shell server and some internal infrastructure jails (mysql, ssl/acme management, git, …) Continue reading “private server”