It's difficult to use FreeBSD without becoming a 90s-style expert sysadmin, and the handbook doesn't really help even if it's possible to do better.
Setting up a server should be as secure and fast as possible with no work, you should get backups, and you shouldn't need a C compiler installed, let alone /usr/src. But the docs still act like you need to be checking out the whole OS and recompiling it for every machine, and then recompile again for jails. And once you get traffic to your web server there's a few pages of sysctl numbers to increase because it won't autotune anything.
On the power user topics, is there a way to get a changelog of port/pkg updates or OS beta releases? It's hard to know when you should bother testing something.
Setting up a server should be as secure and fast as possible with no work, you should get backups, and you shouldn't need a C compiler installed, let alone /usr/src. But the docs still act like you need to be checking out the whole OS and recompiling it for every machine, and then recompile again for jails. And once you get traffic to your web server there's a few pages of sysctl numbers to increase because it won't autotune anything.
On the power user topics, is there a way to get a changelog of port/pkg updates or OS beta releases? It's hard to know when you should bother testing something.