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UPDATE: 12 MARCH 2020 Because our health is one of the most important things in our lives, we at Fuga Cloud are also concerned about the coronavirus. To safeguard the continuity of our services over a longer period, we will therefore take an extra set of precautionary measures; We split the employees of the Cyso Group into an A and B side. One team works at home for a whole week.

The successor of our first platform has been showing for more than half a year that it is a worthy successor! Not only in terms of performance and stability, but also the price / quality ratio has been upgraded. Release 2 has more functionality and a number of features will be added in the upcoming period, such as Kubernetes as a Service and DNS as a Service. Switch now All the more reason for us to say goodbye to our first release.

On June 17, 2019, Netflix researchers announced three vulnerabilities that have been discovered in the FreeBSD and Linux kernels. The vulnerabilities gives attackers the possibility to induce a denial-of-service by clogging network I/O on affected systems. This attack will result in a system crash of the server or instance. Since the announcement, our engineers have been mapping out the impact of these vulnerabilities and have taken several measures to protect the Fuga Cloud services.

Yesterday evening, Intel issued a statement about multiple vulnerabilities in Intel CPUs. This concerns vulnerabilities that fall under Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS) (also known as ZombieLoad, RIDL and Fallout). Since the announcement of this news, our engineers have been mapping out the measures that need to be taken to minimize the impact on Fuga Cloud services. We also closely follow the updates from Intel in order to provide maximum protection for the platform and your environment.

On Wednesday, February 13, we officially started the beta period of our brand new Fuga Cloud platform (named Release 2). In the past months, we have received a lot of feedback from the community. As a result, we’re proud to dismiss the beta label of Release 2 and put our platform into production. From today, as described in our Service Level Agreement, we will also guarantee the monthly uptime of 99.

Beta period is closed. Release 2 went into production on Wednesday, May 1, 2019. We are proud to announce that our complete redesign of Fuga Cloud Platform has now moved to Public Beta. Don’t miss out and test our renewed cloud platform for free. Please don’t forget to provide us with your feedback, we do need it! Enhanced technology, incredible performance As mentioned above, the complete platform has been redesigned.

Fuga Cloud finds that it’s essential for students to get a healthy dose of practical experience on the work floor and get hands-on experience with the technologies and methodologies of today. That’s why, every year, we offer some lucky students the change to gain that experience in one of our scrum teams in an informal but professional work environment. Introducing This week Ludo started his internship at Fuga Cloud. Ludo is 19 years old and is in the 2nd year of his study Software Engineering at the HvA.

2018 - Looking back on a great year 2018 has been a great year! Our loyal customer base continued to grow and we had to expand our cloud platform several times this year. Resulting in more compute resources, a lot of extra storage and improved performance all round. The upgrades were completed without any disruption to our platform. Our cloud platform has proven to be rock-solid and resilient. We added an SLA to our services with an uptime guarantee of 99,99% and updated our Terms of Use to be GDPR ready.

Last Thursday Intel published details regarding three vulnerabilities presented in certain Intel processors. These vulnerabilities are identified as CVE-2018-3615 (for SGX) , CVE-2018-3620 (for operation systems and SMM) and CVE-2018-3646 (for virtualization) . At Fuga Cloud we utilize Intel CPU architectures to provide our customers with a compute platform. And as many other cloud providers, Fuga Cloud may be affected by these vulnerabilities. Solution In order to be protected against these vulnerabilities, it's necessary that the operation system as well as the hypervisor and the CPU microcode of the physical server are provided with updates.

New location will become a place to inspire both techies and creatives Alkmaar, June 4th 2018 - The Cyso Group, leading in hosting for the past 20 years, has been become the proud owner of a new office complex at Wognumsebuurt 3 in Alkmaar as of Friday June 1st 2018. The new location, with a floor area of 2,195 m², provides the organization enough room to continue the current growth at full speed.

CentOS 7.5 build 1804 has been released with new updates, features and bug fixes Great news for Open Source application lovers. CentOS has officially released it’s new version i.e. CentOS 7.5 (1804). This is the current release for CentOS Linux 7 and is tagged as 1804, derived from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 Minimum requirement What is the minimum requirement for installation of CentOS 7.5. Well nothing much.

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (codenamed Bionic Beaver) has been released on 26th April 2018. This release is now available on Fuga Cloud. Ubuntu 18.04 is the latest LTS version. LTS stands for Long Term Support, which means that these versions will receive updates and security fixes for a duration of 5 years, whereas the regular version will only be supported to 9 months after release. LTS versions are released every 2 years.

Update Jan 18th This morning, January 18th at 06:00 CET, the implementation of the security patch for our network controllers didn’t go as expected. After patching and restarting the control layer at 07:15 CET, networking encountered a bug. It took us until 08:13 CET to get networking operational. From this point on, there were no issues with running services, however, our API backend remained unstable until 13:15 CET. The timeline is available on our status page.

As of today we’ve changed our name to Fuga Cloud to emphasize our core business, Cloud Computing. As a result, we’ve changed the domain of our main website. The Horizon interface and endpoints will remain unchanged. If you go to fuga.io you will be redirected to fuga.cloud so there is no impact for you as a visitor.

If you register today or the upcoming days you will receive a start credit of €75. There are no limits to what you can or can’t do. The possibilities are endless. Offer has been expired

We are always looking for opportunities to help our customers to get the most out of Fuga Cloud. So we have developed the Fuga Academy. Here you can find the Getting Started, lots of tutorials, Fuga Articles and much more. VISIT THE FUGA ACADEMY​ We are very curious what you think of it. I would appreciate it if you take a second to give feedback throughout the feedback button. In this way, we can ensure that the Academy is a great success.

Launch your biggest projects in Fuga Cloud Fuga Cloud has a new flavor for you. Making it possible to launch an even larger, better and stronger Fuga instance. We’re proud to announce our 4xl. The 4xl flavor contains: 64GB RAM 16 cores CPU 480GB Diskspace 9TB Traffic Edit (16 november): We have also launched the c1.8xlarge CHECK THE PRICING

Let your friends get familiar with Fuga Cloud for free and earn €50 Fuga Cloud credit. How do I start? Please visit our referral program page and fill out the form. After submitting the form your friend will receive an invitation and his/her €50 of Fuga Cloud credit to get started. When do I receive my Fuga Cloud credit? After your friend’s registration he/she has 6 months to spend at least €50 (excluding promo credit) in order for you to earn your €50 Fuga Cloud credit.

Fuga Cloud now supports DNS resolution for Floating IP addresses. This enables Fuga instances to be properly identified on the internet establishing initial trust with third parties. This was completed by matching the result of a reverse DNS lookup with the result of a forward DNS lookup for Fuga’s Floating IP addresses. Debian 9 image Last Monday, we have added Debian 9 to our image store. Have fun with it!

Today, we celebrate Fuga’s second birthday. If you ask us what makes a party a real party, then our answer is that there are always presents. So we want to give something back to our (future) customers. We have decided to mark this milestone with the inclusion of free traffic in our flavors: ​ C1 Micro: 2TB free traffic C1 Tiny: 3TB free traffic C1 Small: 4TB free traffic C1 Medium: 5TB free traffic C1 Large: 6TB free traffic C1 XLarge: 7TB free traffic C1 XXLarge: 8TB free traffic

In order to limit the amount of abuse (on the Fuga platform), we are forced to block port 25 as the destination port for outgoing e-mail. Our registration flow, where we do a few checks, is not sufficient to prevent a large amount of spammers coming through and start spamming people throughout our platform. From now on, by default, all new accounts don’t have the ability to send e-mails to port 25 anymore.