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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.

The maximum length for object names in Fuga was 256 characters, which proved to be very limiting, so we have now raised the maximum to 1024. That is the same maximum length AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure use. Object names in Swift (and all other object stores) have a maximum length. The object name in an object store is what the filename is on an ordinary file system. Only object stores do not know the principle of folders.

From now on, the Fuga block storage zone has been transformed from ‘ams’ to ‘eu-west-1’. There has been no impact. If you previously refer to your ‘ams’ storage zone in your scripts, you should change that to ‘eu-west-1’. You can find more information about our storage types on our forum: “OpenStack storage types“.

We are proud to inform you that Fuga, following our sister organization and Managed Services Provider Cyso, recently received the ISO 27001 certification. This certification confirms that Fuga values the quality and accuracy concerning the security of information and the protection of related business processes. Paul Bankert, Managing director at Fuga: “As an organization, we are proud to receive this new certification for Fuga. This way, we strive to use our 20 years of knowledge and experience in the hosting branch through our sister organization Cyso, to the greatest possible extent within Fuga.

We’ve created a third availability zone named eu-west-1c in our region for you to use. Why should I use three zones? Using three zones is recommended to create an optimal multi-site failover cluster. Network problems can cause serious issues between cluster nodes. When a subset of nodes is unable to communicate with one another but continue to operate independently, data can become out of sync. To prevent this “split brain” situation a quorum, majority vote, is established authorising only one subset of nodes to continue operations, providing safe automatic failover.

Next week, we’re finally fulfilling a promise long overdue. We’re delivering a new availability zone for the Fuga platform. As part of the preparation of a new Fuga region in our second data center, we’ve done a lot of work on our network configuration. Part of these changes is a rename of the current region to eu-west-1 and creating two new availability zones: eu-west-1a and eu-west-1b. These will replace the current zone ams, which will be phased out.

It’s been a fantastic year for us at Fuga. Ever since launching in September 2015, we’ve managed to grow steadily throughout 2016. We are very happy with the stability and performance of the Fuga platform. One of the main goals we set ourself when we started out, was keeping up with OpenStack’s six-monthly release cycle. We never want to be more than one version behind of the most current stable release.

As mentioned in our OpenStack Mitaka upgrade liveblog the compute node upgrade was postponed. We’re happy to announce that we’ve finished the full process, without any significant downtime. As a result of this upgrade the Fuga platform is now completely upgraded to the OpenStack Mitaka release. With this upgrade we took the last step to enable live migrations so we can narrow the impact on the availability during future maintenance windows.