So here's the first piece of news:
We have our line of Storage Share products that are based on Nextcloud. One of the biggest criticisms when we launched them was that it wasn't possible to use your own domain. But now we are running a beta test for using domains of your choice. To participate in the beta, you need to have a Storage Share package. Then just pick a domain that you want, set up a CNAME record for it, and write us a quick support ticket via the admin interface (konsoleH). Our team will let you know when the domain is active.

There's more info on Storage Share in our wiki.

GDPR aweigh?

Hi there,

On August 8th, 2022, DigitalOcean discovered that our Mailchimp account had been compromised as part of a wider Mailchimp Security Incident. As a result, a number of DigitalOcean customer email addresses may have been viewed by an unauthorized individual.

Impact to you
No customer information other than email address was impacted; however, we recommend increased vigilance against phishing attempts in the coming weeks, in addition to enabling two-factor authentication on your DigitalOcean account. Please review our documentation on two-factor authentication for more information.

Actions we have taken
At DigitalOcean, we take the protection of customer data very seriously, and we sincerely apologize that your email address may have been impacted by this incident. We have migrated our email services to another provider and are completing thorough security reviews to confirm our vendors’ security posture.

For more details on this incident, please read through our latest blog post. We are committed to holding ourselves accountable to our customers and prioritizing protecting your account. We welcome the opportunity to talk through any questions or concerns you may have - just reply to this email.
Sincerely,
DigitalOcean Security

Who has production grade code on nb servers I suggest immediate move. Good luck.

Which provider will bring this in FIRST?

who?

Hostcram?
Hetzner?
Crowncloud?
Terrahost?

https://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Zen-4-Ryzen-7000-to-launch-on-September-15-at-US-799-for-Ryzen-9-7950X-Ryzen-7-7800X3D-and-Ryzen-9-7950X3D-purported-3D-V-Cache-versions.637813.0.html

• Indore, Madhya Pradesh
• Noida, Uttar Pradesh
• Mumbai, Maharashtra
• Pune, Maharashtra
• Bengaluru, Karnataka
• Chennai, Tamil Nadu
• Hyderabad, Telangana

These GPU servers in India have massive parallel processing capabilities and are ideal for graphical rendering, scientific modeling, machine learning, and other parallel computing solutions. From a single GPU server to a whole GPU cluster, the company can deliver within a few hours.

In order to receive a custom quotation for your GPU server requirement in India, you can contact the sales team, on this page: https://www.stromonic.com/gpu-dedicated-servers

Stromonic offers flexible and essential services that help organizations optimize their journey of IT transformation while simultaneously balancing cost, scalability, compliance, and security. The company headquartered in Jalpaiguri, India, is committed to building trusted relationships and delivering tailored solutions that suit the individual needs of its customers.

Stromonic is deeply invested in the success of its customers, who trust it to deliver core data center solutions of colocation, bare metal servers, cloud computing, managed solutions, and professional services.

Stromonic's robust suite of assets spans 21 markets and 6 highly redundant and connectivity-rich data centers in India. For more information about Stromonic, please visit: https://www.stromonic.com

https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/matrix-rx

Over the last 11 years, Amazon Drive has served as a secure cloud storage service for Amazon customers to back up their files. On December 31, 2023, we will no longer support Amazon Drive to more fully focus our efforts on photos and video storage with Amazon Photos. We will continue to provide customers the ability to safely back up, share, and organize photos and videos with Amazon Photos.

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Your server will be shut down and booted up after the maintenance has been completed. We do not expect any data on your server to change, but as a best practice, we always recommend that you keep the latest copy of your backups.

During this maintenance, we will make updates to the host server, and also boot it into our new cloud platform , from where you will be able to manage your server after it comes back online

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I’m writing to make you aware of a price increase being implemented on some of our products and services. We are providing 30 days’ notice, and so these changes won’t come into effect until 1 August 2022.

Like many businesses and individuals up and down the country, we’re affected by the widely publicised quadrupling of wholesale energy prices since March last year. Power is one of our most significant direct costs so unfortunately these increases impact us significantly. We’ve been absorbing these increases to date in the hope that the market would settle back to more normal levels. However, most commentators expect that energy pricing will peak during the winter months and will remain high going forward so, as a result, we have no option but to pass through some of these costs in our prices going forward.

We have generally tried to avoid price increases where possible. However, in light of the above, we will be increasing the price of our services by 19.5% from 1 August 2022.

Thank you for being our customer and we look forward to continuing to support you. If you have any specific questions about this price change, please contact your Account Manager or email iomart at pricechanges@iomart.com.

Yours sincerely,

Scott Cunningham
Chief Financial Officer

they call it confidential email

https://www.zoho.com/mail/help/confidential-email.html

What's a SecurePass Email?

SecurePass Email can be used to send confidential information or data that is shared by email but shouldn't be forwarded, downloaded, or copied&pasted. A link protected by a SecurePass code will be forwarded to the recipients via email. The secure passcode will only be sent to the actual recipient's email address, and the recipient must enter the code to view the email's content, which cannot be forwarded, copied&pasted, printed, or downloaded. The SecurePass Email can be set to expire after a certain period of time, after which the recipient will no longer be able to access the link and thus the content in the email.

My (non-expert) feeling is that this is something similar to Tutanota/Protonmail - two "secure email" services that I have used.

Any thoughts? Experiences??

( we use the subscription service for our business, not sure if it is applicable for free tier.)

Eerily reminiscent of a certain book seller amazon realizing they can sell some of their internal infra (what became AWS).

Pricing here.. Full list is just below that but hardcoded pdf so don't want to link it.

Tiny VM at 2.19 € seems OK, but rest like object storage looks kinda pricey to me. However not seeing any ingress/egress costs listed though which if true could be pretty cool

edit: random article

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/lidls-parent-company-launches-cloud-unit-to-offer-made-in-germany-aws-rival/

Site itself: www.stackit.de

Would be nice to pair this with BunnyCDN's S3 signing feature

`The hubiC offers as they currently exist will stop. Your account will be inaccessible from August 22, 2022. We would like to thank you for your trust and loyalty during those years and hope that hubiC gave you full satisfaction.

A new service, Shadow Drive, resolutely enriched and turned towards the future, has just been announced. It is a secure solution accessible to all, built in partnership with NextCloud, the world leader in open source cloud storage. Shadow Drive will be accessible for free up to 20GB of storage, while a premium version of the service will be available starting at €/£8.99 per month, with up to 2TB of storage.

As a loyal Hubic customer, we offer you the chance to be among the first to experience Shadow Drive and its early access launch. If you choose the 2TB offer, we will gladly migrate your hubiC data to Shadow Drive.

IMPORTANT: it is essential to fill in your preferences, to benefit from an early access account, and plan the migration of your hubiC data:

Without any action from you, we will delete your account as well as all your files hosted at hubiC when we stop our services.

To recover your file, follow the instructions included in the link to download your files directly to your device.

The hubiC teams thank you once again for your trust and loyalty.`

DigitalOcean Functions is a serverless computing solution that runs on-demand, enabling you to focus on your code, scale instantly with confidence, and save costs by eliminating the need to maintain servers.

https://www.digitalocean.com/blog/introducing-digitalocean-functions-serverless-computing

To Whom It May Concern:

A global hardware and network upgrade for the MaxKVM Cloud has been arranged, and new virtual machine host servers with PCIe4 NVMe SSDs and dual 40GE network cards are scheduled to deploy very soon to improve I/O performance and network connectivity in all locations.

Existing services will begin migration to the new hardware on or before this Saturday, 5/21/22, and the move will be completed by the end of the month. Pricing will not change for any existing services, and a notice with the time and date of the scheduled maintenance for each location will be emailed as soon as possible.

Any downtime for this upgrade can be avoided with a support ticket request for virtual machine migration to another location or system reprovisioning without data transfer. Maintenance should be expected to last between 2 and 24 hours for each location depending on data transfer speed and network arrangements.

The S/PKVM line has been set out of stock and will be retired, but a new line of virtual machines has been created with similar pricing and specifications to launch on or before 6/1/22: 

https://manage.maxkvm.com/store/maxkvm-global-cloud

To possibly make up for any inconvenience caused by recent outages or migrations, all active users will be issued account credit equal to 50% of one month of service for use on renewal or new purchases.

In addition, the code UPGRADE50 has been temporarily activated for a 50% recurring discount off any new service and will be kept available as long as possible.

Please feel welcome to contact anytime with any questions.

Thank you,

MaxKVM Support

TL;DR (probably)
We are moving to a new host on or before 21 May 2022 until end of month. Same price as before. Active customer gets 50% of one month service (?) account credit. Here's 50% discount.

hope this helps some of their customers who may not be knowing here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31269062

Haven't read in full yet, but it seems like their internal DB was hacked, which leaked oAuth token for Github, which should allow hackers to have access to your private repositories.

If you have some keys hardcoded into your code, you might want to rotate those.

https://postmarkapp.com/blog/postmark-and-dmarc-digests-acquired-by-activecampaign

On my testing, postmark was (and is) one of the best transactional SMTP services available. I do hope they continue to be one, but I think I'll have to look for alternative just in case

same day release as Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero

kernel 5.15 LTS

who will be the first to install?

https://www.netcup-news.de/2022/04/06/neues-verbraucherschutzgesetz-zu-mindestvertragslaufzeit/

Translation by Google Translate:

New consumer protection law on minimum contract terms
April 6th, 2022, Category: General

In Germany, a new consumer protection law came into force on March 1st, 2022. Consumers who purchase a product after March 1st, 2022 can terminate their contract monthly after the minimum contract period of 12 to a maximum of 24 months. This means that the contract term is not automatically extended by a further 12 months after the minimum term, but only by one month at a time.

This is what the law says in Germany, but we have decided to apply these new contract rules to all netcup end-user customers outside of Germany.
Existing customers can also benefit from this new regulation.

The billing period of 12, 6 or 3 months remains in effect, but in the event of cancellation you will be reimbursed for the excess amount paid in advance.
Domains are also granted monthly cancellation after the minimum term, however the prepaid amount is non-refundable as domains are an individual product that we have already pre-purchased for the length of the prepaid period.

How does that work specifically?
Suppose you have or buy a product with a minimum contract term of 12 months and a billing period of 6 months. In the 13th month you realize that you no longer need the product, you want to cancel it. You can now do this via the CCP at the end of the 13th month. To do this, log into the CCP.
Under the menu item "Cancellation" you can see the earliest possible cancellation date via the dropdown. Enter the desired termination date. Your cancellation is effective from the next possible desired date (in the example from the 14th month).
The amount that was prepaid at the beginning of the 13th month for the next 6 months will now be refunded to you pro rata at 5/6.

Of course, our accounting department needs your bank details in order to arrange the refund. If you have not yet stored this in your master data, please let us know.

What happens if I take over another end user's contract? Does the minimum contract period then start all over again?
Many of our customers are present in our forum and use the exchange market there .
There, customers can exchange products with customers via a change of ownership.
Changes of ownership are treated like an existing contract. If the minimum contract period has expired and both parties are end consumers, the customer who accepts the contract can also terminate the contract with one month's notice.

Does this rule also apply to upgrades?
Upgrading a contract, for example from an RS1000 to an RS2000, is always treated as a new contract. Therefore, the minimum contract period starts again from the beginning and is therefore the exception.

If you have any questions on this topic, please feel free to contact our support as usual.

Your netcup team

https://www.hetzner.com/presse-berichte/2022/03/167137

Russia faces a critical IT storage crisis after Western cloud providers pulled out of the country, leaving Russia with only two more months before they run out of data storage.

The Russian government is exploring various solutions to resolve this IT storage problem, ranging from leasing all available domestic data storage to seizing IT resources left behind by businesses that pulled out of the country.

These solutions were proposed during a meeting held at the Ministry of Digital Transformation, attended by representatives of Sberbank, MTS, Oxygen, Rostelecom, Atom-Data, Croc, and Yandex.

According to the Russian news outlet Kommersant, which claims to have sources confirming this proposal, the parties estimated they have roughly two months left before running out of available storage space.

Due to imposed sanctions, all Russian firms were forced to turn to domestic cloud storage service providers after Western cloud storage services cut business ties with the country.

For example, the locally-sourced storage capacity needs of Russian mobile carrier MegaFon increased fivefold, MTS tenfold, and VK had to seek 20% more storage resources in just a week.

This has created an insurmountable practical problem as there are not enough data centers in Russia to accommodate the needs of local operators; hence, a national solution for the Russian storage crisis is needed.

Kommersant further explains that the situation coincides with public Russian agencies' storage needs growing exponentially due to "smart city" projects involving extensive video surveillance and facial recognition systems.

Steps to a solution

Last week, the Ministry of Digital Development amended the Yarovaya Law (2016) to suspend a yearly requirement for telecom operators to increase storage capacity allocations by 15% for anti-terrorist surveillance purposes.

Another move that could free up space would be to demand ISPs abandon media streaming services and other online entertainment platforms that eat up precious resources.

Thirdly, there's the option of buying out all available storage from domestic data processing centers. However, this will likely lead to further problems for entertainment providers who need additional storage to add services and content.

Russia is also considering seizing IT servers and storage left behind by companies who pulled out of Russia and integrating them into public infrastructure.

According to local media, the ministry is currently analyzing how much resources would be made available if the government enacted such policies. A fast-track procedure will then be developed if they are enough to support critical state operations.

The final option would be to tap into Chinese cloud service providers and IT system sellers, but this is currently complicated because China has not yet decided how much it's willing to help Russia and on which sectors.

Huawei has reportedly suspended its equipment sales to Russia until March 26, 2022. However, being itself sanctioned by the U.S. and barred from 5G roll-outs in EU countries, the Chinese tech firm may grasp the business opportunity to fill the void left by exiting western competitors.

Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/russia-faces-it-crisis-with-just-two-months-of-data-storage-left/

CVEs:
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2022-1016
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2022-1015

Original report:
https://lwn.net/ml/oss-security/1b176761-5462-4f25-db12-1b988c81c34a@gmail.com/

1. What are the settings that you have in Security > Settings > Security Level, and under Security > DDOS > HTTP DDOS Attack Protection - Configure?

2. There's a test rule named "Test rule: will quickly block URI containing blockme=(...)", can you make a request and see if this works on your site?

(Wrong category, but can't edit it any more.)

Free BGP Self Service from ENIGMA

Terrahost launches BGP Self Service readily available in ENIGMA. This feature is now in testing and available to customers. It provides customers with free BGP sessions on all supported services with little to no intervention by Terrahost staff!

The feature is available in all current and future locations! We even offer redundant sessions where this is available. If you have any suggestions to how we can improve the service, please let us know either in a ticket or through PM

To get started, simply submit your ASN and LOA for approval by our staff. Once approved you can use your ASN to create sessions on all supported services. Existing BGP customers will have their current sessions available in ENIGMA in just a bit.

Process is simple. See screenshots of the process below

I'am pretty skeptical about bunny as a provider in compare to monsters like Akamai. But it seems they introduce some really interesting services. Thought, DNS is in beta rollout. Estimated pricing also is reasonable. Still not direct competitor to CF. Sad

Another reason I'm glad for having switched to DirectAdmin - in spite of its downsides.
This new interface seems quite unintuitive and, well... poorly designed.
Or I'm just too old (one not excluding the other ).


Hello everyone!


Recent News


We are excited to let you know, we have opened another location in the UK Equinix MA4! Check out our Dedicated Servers in Manchester, United Kingdom, our 14th Point of Presence. As our new POP location, we selected Equinix MA4 in the heart of Manchester University Science Park, which enjoys fast, low latency routes to Europe and the USA also digital channels to media hubs in Manchester and London.

In our new Manchester's datacenter we offer you one of the latest, super-fast 4 GHz CPUs by Intel. The Xeon E-2286G.
So, if you've got the script that needs some severe crunching power to complete its task in the fastest possible time, we have these insanely fast servers waiting for you.

Check out our Dedicated Servers in Manchester here.

In addition to it, we continue to grow our network. We have recently added 300 Gbit/s with euNetworks to increase the connectivity between London, Frankfurt and our newest data centre in Manchester - Equinix MA4. Our latest PoP in Manchester interconnects with all our other locations with a 100 Gbit/s ring, and it's directly connected to GTT, LINX Manchester, Equinix IX, LINX LON1, all peers from LINX LON1 and LON2.

More about the 300 Gbit/s network upgrade of our European backbone you'll find here.

With these recent network upgrades, we have 8Tbps of total network capacity.

Please find out more about our connectivity service here.

STANDARD SERVER FEATURES INCLUDE:

• KVM/IPMI
• Diverse Power & Routing
• 24/7 Network & Hardware Support
• Automated OS Re-installs
- Power Controls from Panel
- Premium Bandwidth Blend
- iGPU

FREE-EXTRAS

• 50GB FREE ACRONIS BACKUP
• CORERO complimentary, best effort DDoS Protection
• IPv6 Subnets /48 or /64 

What sets us apart?
-Juniper only network with new equipment.
-Multi 100Gbps core network (8Tbps+ Total Capacity) with N+1 resiliency at minimum and diverse routing.
-Great peering at Equinix IX London, AMS-IX, DE-CIX, Digital Realty IX, DE-CIX NY, Any2 IX, Digital Realty IX & Community IX Atlanta to local ISP’s and private peering directly with Liberty Global and Google and more!
-We transit with: Telia, GTT, Sparkle/Telecom Italia and TATA which guarantees excellent, congestion free-connectivity
-LINX, LONAP and AMS-IX partner - we can connect you to these exchanges with your own ASN.
-Cross Continent MPLS Network Spread over 13 data centres.
-Tier 3 Data centres in Dallas, Phoenix, Ashburn, Los Angeles, Atlanta, New York City - 60 Hudson St, New York City - 32 Avenues of Americas, Amsterdam, Frankfurt and Manchester.
-Value added services included; free DirectAdmin licensing, complimentary best effort DDoS protection, FREE Acronis 50GB offsite backup for internal services.
-We aim at the highest quality service for a reasonable price.
-Clouvider is an established, growing, 8-year-old UK based business.

FAQ’s:

Can these servers be customised?
Yes, we have several options during the checkout process for eligible systems. However, pre-configured servers cannot be customised. If you seek a different configuration than listed, please contact us.

Can I check your network?
Yes, our LookingGlass can be found at https://as62240.net/.

How long for deployment?
Our standard delivery is within 5 working days due to the current situation around the world. Our average provisioning time is within 1 working day. Custom configurations may take longer.

Do you offer IPMI Access?
Yes, free VPN Secured IPMI access can be provided on request.

Do you offer IPv6?
Yes, /64 or /48 subnets can be requested during the order process.

Can you accommodate x, y or z?
Open a sales ticket to discuss our custom solutions, happy to help where possible.

Any questions or queries?
Contact our team today here

All pricing shown is exclusive of VAT if/where applicable and doesn’t factor in any further discounts available such as promotional code usage. Because of the limited stock, if the order is not paid within an hour, it will be regretfully cancelled, and the stock returned to the pool for others to enjoy. Subject to our standard Terms & Conditions. Cancellation notice period applies. Offer valid whilst promotional stocks last.

[root@bobs-server ~]# lscpu
Architecture: x86_64
CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit
Byte Order: Little Endian
CPU(s): 2
On-line CPU(s) list: 0,1
Thread(s) per core: 1
Core(s) per socket: 1
Socket(s): 2
NUMA node(s): 1
Vendor ID: GenuineIntel
BIOS Vendor ID: Red Hat
CPU family: 6
Model: 13
Model name: QEMU Virtual CPU version 2.5+
BIOS Model name: RHEL 7.6.0 PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
Stepping: 3
CPU MHz: 3791.982
BogoMIPS: 7583.96
Hypervisor vendor: KVM
Virtualization type: full
L1d cache: 32K
L1i cache: 32K
L2 cache: 4096K
L3 cache: 16384K
NUMA node0 CPU(s): 0,1
Flags: fpu de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx lm rep_good nopl xtopology cpuid tsc_known_freq pni cx16 x2apic hypervisor lahf_lm pti

Vimeo bandwidth usage is calculated using factors like video plays, resolution, loading the player and thumbnail image, downloading, and livestreaming, according to the company’s website. Overage charges aren’t imposed unless an account reaches “unusually high levels,” or is in the 99 percentile of users. Vimeo places that threshold at around 2 to 3 TB per month. In communication with affected creators, Vimeo isn’t shy about its policy to charge top creators more."

What a joke. 2-3TB?! 😆 It would be cheaper for them just to pickup a deal here.

https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/15/22979126/vimeo-patreon-creators-price-increase

"Good old" cestpit of shady activities, QuadraNet also mentioned.

Does anyone have doomsday theories about how VPN providers will be held responsible for pirating customers?

Always Online is a service that delivers archived content when Cloudflare is unable to reach your origin server. For more than a year, Cloudflare’s Always Online service has been, in part, backed by our partnership with the Internet Archive.

As of 12 July 2022 Cloudflare is moving Always Online to be completely powered by the Internet Archive. As a result, Always Online will also no longer be enabled by default for certain websites, meaning that if you want to use Always Online you must manually enable it in the Cloudflare dashboard.

Users who have enabled Always Online powered by the Internet Archive will see no change in behavior. Users who have not enabled Always Online and want to continue to use the functionality should follow these steps:
Navigate to the Cloudflare Dashboard
Select the configuration page of the Caching section
Scroll down to find the Always Online tile and make sure you press “update”
Note: if you just see the toggle “on” it means you are already enabled and do not need to do anything else.

Opting-in to use Always Online means we will share publicly-available URLs from your website with the Internet Archive. This allows for us to make sure they have relevant content should we need to find an archived version to send to visitors.

If you choose to not enable the version of Always Online backed by the Internet Archive, we will not check for archived versions of your website if your origin is unreachable. This may result in additional errors being delivered to visitors when your origin cannot respond.

Background information on Always Online
In an older version, Cloudflare would crawl and archive pages for retrieval by Always Online. To provide a better service, we are now partnering with the Internet Archive to power Always Online. By partnering with the Internet Archive, we can provide additional resilience to our customers should wider service outages exist as well as rely on the Internet Archive’s expertise in crawling and archiving functionality.

Lenovo Snapdragon Thinkpad
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/02/lenovo-announces-the-first-arm-based-thinkpad/

Dear Customer,

We have some exciting news to share!

Today we are announcing an agreement to acquire Area 1 Security, a cloud-native email security company, and leader in preventing phishing attacks in email, web, and network environments. Together, we expect to deliver the world’s fastest, most reliable email security solution.

In modern enterprises, email is one of the most-used cloud applications. Unfortunately, email is also one of the largest attack vectors on the Internet. Legacy email security solutions are not designed for today’s cloud-native world and modern solutions often remain disjointed from your overall cloud security approach.

But now email security can be integrated into your global cloud network. The combination of Area 1’s leading phishing protection and threat intelligence capabilities with Cloudflare’s global network, data capabilities, and Zero Trust platform will help you secure your entire global network infrastructure. You’ll be able to keep your employees secure and productive no matter where they work or whether they access applications on premise or in the cloud.

We expect the acquisition of Area 1 to be completed in April. In the meantime, please share this information with colleagues interested in augmenting cloud email defenses with the most effective phishing protections available.

If you’re interested in learning more about Cloudflare and Area 1 Security, please sign up for our live webinar, scheduled for March 3, 2022.

Sign up here for our team to reach out to you once the acquisition is complete.

-- Cloudflare Team

Slightly odd one - Akamai is all about big customers while linode is very much focussed on small biz / individuals

Capital Raise Planned for Q2, 2022.

February 7, 2022 — Epik Holdings Inc. announced the completion of its acquisition of Norwegian-based, Terrahost AS as part of the company’s strategic objective to provide resilient, affordable, data hosting and storage solutions to the world.

Terrahost is building upon its 15-year legacy of world-class data solutions through targeted investments and optimization of its infrastructure and portfolio of storage, software and networking products—resulting in significant market penetration and over 300% revenue growth.

“We are excited to be able to bring Terrahost to the world,” says Epik CEO, Rob Monster, “For the last 15 years, Terrahost has been building a robust network of mostly below-ground, fortified data centers connected with the proprietary Enigma automation suite. The combination is what has delivered customers a winning combination of extreme resiliency with an economic model that scales from VPS to Enterprise.”

The journey for Terrahost to become part of Epik began in April 2021. “Our success in 2021 has been a result of team commitment to providing secure, efficient, affordable data products and services to its customers,” says Sten Huseby, CEO of Terrahost AS.“

See full press release here.

CBL-Mariner is an internal Linux distribution for Microsoft’s cloud infrastructure and edge products and services. CBL-Mariner is designed to provide a consistent platform for these devices and services and will enhance Microsoft’s ability to stay current on Linux updates. This initiative is part of Microsoft’s increasing investment in a wide range of Linux technologies, such as SONiC, Azure Sphere OS and Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). CBL-Mariner is being shared publicly as part of Microsoft’s commitment to Open Source and to contribute back to the Linux community. CBL-Mariner does not change our approach or commitment to any existing third-party Linux distribution offerings.