Hetzner no longer offers direct install of FreeBSD, but we can do it ourselves. Here is how :)
Boot the Hetzner server in Hetzner Debian based rescue mode. ssh into it.
The Hetzner rescue image will tell you hardware details about the server in the login banner. For example, with one of my servers I see:
In order to use Wordpress in SSL with NGINX add
$_SERVER['HTTPS']='on';
to wp-config.php just before
require_once(ABSPATH . 'wp-settings.php');
| #!/usr/bin/env bash | |
| # Instructions: | |
| # | |
| # 1) Place this script in the /root/ directory, give it proper permissions. | |
| # $ sudo chmod +x /root/open-cloudflare.sh | |
| # | |
| # 2) Open the cron job editor | |
| # $ sudo crontab -e | |
| # |
| # CPU | |
| sysbench --test=cpu --cpu-max-prime=1000 run | |
| # Disk | |
| # Random read write | |
| fio --randrepeat=1 --ioengine=libaio --direct=1 --gtod_reduce=1 --name=test --filename=test --bs=4k --iodepth=64 --size=1M --readwrite=randrw --rwmixread=75 | |
| # Random read | |
| fio --randrepeat=1 --ioengine=libaio --direct=1 --gtod_reduce=1 --name=test --filename=test --bs=4k --iodepth=64 --size=1M --readwrite=randread | |
| # Random write | |
| fio --randrepeat=1 --ioengine=libaio --direct=1 --gtod_reduce=1 --name=test --filename=test --bs=4k --iodepth=64 --size=1M --readwrite=randwrite |
| #!/bin/bash | |
| set -e -o pipefail | |
| latest_nginx=$(curl -L http://nginx.org/en/download.html | egrep -o "nginx\-[0-9.]+\.tar[.a-z]*" | head -n 1) | |
| latest_libressl=$(curl -L http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/LibreSSL/ | egrep -o "libressl\-[0-9.]+\.tar\.gz" | tail -n 1) | |
| (curl -fLRO "http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/LibreSSL/${latest_libressl}" && tar -xaf "${latest_libressl}") & | |
| (curl -fLRO "http://nginx.org/download/${latest_nginx}" && tar -xaf "${latest_nginx}") & | |
| wait |
| #!/bin/bash | |
| if [[ $EUID -ne 0 ]]; then | |
| echo -e " | |
| ROOT PRIVILEDGES NEEDED! | |
| You have to run this script as root. | |
| Aborting... | |
| " | |
| exit 1 | |
| else |
| # to generate your dhparam.pem file, run in the terminal | |
| openssl dhparam -out /etc/nginx/ssl/dhparam.pem 2048 |