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The holidays are over, but that doesn’t mean we’ve been doing nothing at Fuga these past few weeks. We have been busy with all kinds of improvements and developments. In the background and the “upcoming releases”, so keep an eye on the newsletter because nice things are coming soon. Help us improve ourselves We are only human and therefore we like to receive compliments. But we may learn even more from your questions, comments, and (constructive) feedback.

Most people celebrate vacation time, but we keep going full speed. New developments, new tutorial, fresh updates. So enough intro talk, on to the real Fun&Facts. GPU update The Beta testers have been busy and have done a great job. The prices have also been determined, so no questions left there. We will be working hard in the coming period to put the last dots on the I so we can go live with this service quickly.

It’s the first Tuesday of the month again and so it’s time for our newsletter. In addition to the facts, we also have an interview with Marino for you, you may have talked to him through the chat, this is an opportunity to read more about him. Are you missing something on our site or in our newsletter? Then we would like to hear your wishes and tips for manuals, content or functionalities that you still have on your wish list via an email to hello@fuga.

We have not been idle this past month and therefore have plenty of news to tell you. If you have additional questions, you can always open a chat on our website or send an email to hello@fuga.cloud. At that email address we would also like to receive your wishes and tips for manuals, content or functionalities that you have on your wish list. Fastest storage now scales with our compute flavors Our flavors on AMS2 have been updated.

For the last few months, we have been busy with our new region, AMS2. Now we have reached the point that every few weeks we have something fun to report. Serious matters but also fun facts we do not want to withhold from you. Fuga network less dependent on USA carriers We have recently optimized the Fuga network more for EU routes. A better distribution has now been chosen so that we are less dependent on US carriers.

We have launched our new region! In this mail, we will tell you about the improvements and new functionality of this region. You can use your current account to log into the new platform. We encourage you to do so and have a look. When you log in, you will see a pop-up to inform you about the new region. When you press the button, you can access the new region within seconds.

We are proud to announce our new Cloud region named AMS2. This region will launch on March 31st, 2021 at 10:00 AM. How do you get access to this new cloud region? When you are logged in on our current dashboardyou will see a pop-up telling you that you can roll out your own environment on AMS2. When you do this, you will have access to AMS2 within seconds. Your current environment on AMS1 will not be affected and you will be able to switch between both regions within the dashboard.

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.

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. In this blog post, you can read why we decided to take this step. By using the latest hardware and using it as efficiently as possible, the performance of Fuga Cloud is even better than before.

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.

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. You have to have at least 1 GB of RAM in your system to be install this OS or if you want to use the Live OS then have at least 1.

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.