Wednesday 25 November 2009
By Ryan on Wednesday 25 November 2009, 16:48
Note: I am republishing this entry, because of the number of customers that are writing to us to express their surprise at the fact that they are not being charged for the renewal of their first share. As a reminder, your first monthly share is refunded whether you decide to keep it or not. So if you don't keep your share, we'll refund the cost of the first month, but if you do keep it, we'll renew it for the second month for nothing.
To help you test our hosting service without any risk, your first hosting share is
100% refundable! Which means you'll get your money back on your first share whether you stay with our service or not!!
(No, there's no fine print that says that this is only available for the next two days, 4 hours and 24 seconds, and if you have an IP address that ends in 256 and only if you have Hungarian nationality on your mothers' side and Finnish on your fathers... it really is for everyone
)
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Friday 13 November 2009
By Ryan on Friday 13 November 2009, 09:08
Hello,
Today we have launched the functions allowing you to
manage your own interfaces. You may configure up to
4 interfaces per server.
To add an additional interface, you will need to add
additional IP address quota via the resource management interface.
Each additional IP address costs
€1 excl. VAT per month (if paid monthly), or €10 (ex VAT) per year if paid annually, e.g. 2 months free!
This new function lays the foundations for us to provide you with some really cool features in the future such as an IP failover system, the utilization of IPv6 addresses or even creating a private networks between your servers.
As this has been at the top of your
Wishlist for several months, we sincerely hope that this new feature will make you smile!
You can find documentation on this in our wiki
here.
Monday 9 November 2009
By Leland Vandervort on Monday 9 November 2009, 11:43
Today we are opening the beta-test phase for the implementation of IPv6 on our hosting platform.
As a reminder, IPv6
is the successor to the current IPv4 upon which the internet is based,
and given the generous attribution of the early IP addresses, the IPv4
address space is rapidly running out of available adresses.
Its replacement is gently making its appearance across the
internet. An IPv6 address is made up of 128bits as opposed to 32bits
for an IPv4 address. We are moving from 2^32 available addresses to
2^128 (excluding reserved allocations, of course) which gives us a few
decades.. erm.. centuries to breathe!
If you wish to participate in the beta test phase, you must:
- Have some basic knowledge of IPv6
- Have a Gandi server in expert mode (i.e. with root access)
- Send us a request to participate to ipv6beta@gandi.net and include your gandi handle/user-id. (You will receive an email by return with the procedure to follow).
Initially, we will limit the beta test to approximately 50 servers, so don't wait to send in your request! 
Tuesday 6 October 2009
By Ryan on Tuesday 6 October 2009, 18:39
Since our hosting service has been released, you have been requesting it, and here it is!
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Thursday 24 September 2009
By Arti on Thursday 24 September 2009, 11:50
A new version of Gandi AI, labeled 1.2, is currently available via the server module management page of your account. This version corrects many bugs and imperfections that were present in version 1.1. It also significantly improves the performance of Apache due to the replacement of the mpm-itk module by a per-user module.
We are also going to take advantage of this upgrade to implement two additional modules:
- PunBB, an efficient open-source forum that is solid, light, and written in PHP
- Magento, a (the?) open-source platform that allows you to create an online store. Many add-ons are available on the MagentoConnect platform, such as the possibility of customizing the design of your store, changing the language of your interface, or to activate the payment platform of your preference. Also note that Magento needs 2 to 3 shares to run correctly.
Set up your server at
http://www.gandi.net/hosting
Thursday 16 July 2009
By Ryan on Thursday 16 July 2009, 11:33
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Tuesday 7 July 2009
By Ryan on Tuesday 7 July 2009, 17:05
The success of the
"Your server for free this summer!" operation is such that we have decided to have another promotion, which will be an extension of the previous one.
The first 1,000 free servers were given out in less than one week! Given the number of requests that we have received, we have even opened 102 accounts in addition to what was planned. Only here is the problem: there are many of you on the waiting list and at Gandi, and we want to be able to please as many as possible
The new promotion will therefore begin today. We are once more offering
1,000 free servers though this time, for only
one month.
The promotion remains, of course, without any purchase necessary, and you are free to keep your server by adding hosting resources to your account, or to let them expire.
The promotion that allows you to benefit from 2 free months by exchanging your monthly shares with fixed annual shares remains valid until August 31st 2009. For this, as a reminder, you just need to go to your "resource management" page, choose the number of annual shares that you want, and pay for your order. Once the shares have been added to your account, you can then remove the monthly shares that you no longer need. You will then be refunded for the time that remaining in the billing cycle for those shares.
Thursday 2 July 2009
By Ryan on Thursday 2 July 2009, 18:08
Dear Customers,
As some of you may have noticed, we experienced a power outage from 11:30 AM to 3:30 PM (CET) today.
We apologise for the inconvenience caused.
The company which manages the datacenter, that houses one of our server rooms performed maintenance this morning on some of their electrical equipment. Unfortunately, a human error by the provider undertaking the maintenance led to a total blackout of the datacenter for several minutes. The outage impacted many major companies on the internet (Dailymotion, Skyblog, Pixmania, etc.), as well as a portion of our customers.
Our system automatically transfers data to another server room in the event of a problem and it was working normally until the threshold was reached too quickly. There are several reasons for this: a massive outage on a scale seldom seen, combined with our choice to build-up the other server locations gradually rather than all at once, a server rebooting process that still requires perfecting and the success of our free server operation...in short, a chain of events caused this outage for some of you.
It goes without saying that we will examine what we could have been done at our end to prevent this, for example, a quicker building up of the other server locations (the hosting operation helps this enormously), and the continued optimization of the rebooting script (in the event that the electricity gods or the datacenter's subcontractor are still out to get us).
Additionally, we will ensure we refund you for today, and are at your disposal for any additional requests you may have. We will be adding one day to the expiration date for all of the affected hosting resources throughout the day.
Please accept our sincere apologies for this inconvenience. We are working to ensure that our infrastructure is built-up in a way which assures good performance and excellent management, so that ALL of you can benefit from our technology.
Technical note: In the event of a Gandi AI server, if your server responds but one of your services (web, ftp, etc.) is not working correctly, you can fix this by simply stopping and starting your server from Gandi's website. In the event that you have an expert server, we recommend that you activate your account's emergency console and execute a fsck command on your disks.
Thursday 25 June 2009
By Ryan on Thursday 25 June 2009, 17:23
Summer has come and this has put us in the mood to make you happy...
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Tuesday 2 June 2009
By Ryan on Tuesday 2 June 2009, 14:53
As you probably already know, our platform protects you from hardware failures that might occur on your server.
In the event of a problem on the machine, or if we suspect that a problem might occur (abnormal temperature, corrupted memory, etc.), your “server” will automatically be migrated to another machine.
However, if you have an internal problem on your "server" that is not to due to the physical machine, and if it no longer responds, then you will need to take action.
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Thursday 7 May 2009
By Ryan on Thursday 7 May 2009, 16:38
Many websites start with a single server solution, a box acting as a web server and database server all in one. Simply, easy, cheap. The problem comes when traffic gets too high (a victim of their own success!). Many customers want a bigger box, but the answer is actually changing your architecture from "web server" to "web infrastructure". You can duplicate web servers, use the DNS to load balance them and ramp up your capacity very fast and very far.
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