Almost exactly 2 years ago we established a new datacenter with enough room for 4000 servers in Munich. This has been done in order to face the growing demand in colocation and dedicated servers and to reach an even higher quality level. The same building also contains our office rooms which enables us to deliver […]
This time the number of the month represents the number of our 22 state-of-the-art Rittal racks which have been set up for the new colocation servers of our customers. Each of those 22 Rittal racks is equipped with lockable doors and additional roof ventilation. We have installed these racks during the last months in addition
For many of our server customers it’s very important to get an internet bandwidth for their server which is guaranteed 24/7 during day and night and, moreover, which is allowed to be used by their server without running the risk of being suspended or throttled. So what we did with immediate effect is that we
Until now we have never presented a “number of the month” in our blog, but I think February is a good month to start with it. This “number of the month” gives us the chance to reveal some more details about our company and our products by using hard facts instead of just telling anything.
One day after the official release of Debian 6 we are proud to offer this to our customer as well. New customers can order it as operating system on our website, existing customers by contacting our support or using the ASI upgrade if they have ordered this. For me the most important changes are: Kernel
Continuing growth of our server fleet does not only require more space. It also demands an expansion of our cooling capacities. Such is necessary to eliminate the electrical energy, which is transformed by our servers almost 1:1 into temperature. During the hot months in summer, everyone has certainly already experienced sometimes the rising temperature in
From time to time we receive requests from our customers who ask whether it would be possible to use an enormous amount of Internet traffic with their server without the risk of having their server limited at the port – for example to 10 Mbit/s. A lot of Internet services require constant high bandwidth and
It’s about time: Our VPS are finally available for international customers! We’ve invested countless hours during the past few months and we haven’t been afraid of necessary expenses to provide you with a rock-solid product, paired with a great mix of technical features for a small price. According to our slogan “Think bigger, think Giga!”
In addition to the already existing, extremely reliable connection via M-Net (10 Gbit/s) there will be yet another 10 Gbit/s connection in our datacenter available from July the 1st on. The additional glass fiber connection will be provided by Colt and is completely seperated from our primary upstream. Colt themselves are located within the building
Internet exchange points are a key component of the internet infrastructure. The following short video clip explains how they work. By the way, we are really proud of our high-quality connectivity. The traffic of our customers can not only be routed through various Internet exchange points but also be routed via many direct peerings to
Only 4 days after the release of the new Ubuntu version 10.04 (codename: Lucid Lynx) we have updated our systems to install the new version on our servers. The new version is an LTS-version (Long-Time-Support). This means, that Ubuntu will extend the support time and provide updates for a longer time. Many interesting changes have