A two month trip to Europe and the USA along with endless work on migration of existing services and applications to the new infrastructure has lead to their being very little headline news concerning the development of the public offering.

Changelog

CIX colo deployment

Deployment of equipment to our colocation cabinet at CIX data center in Cork, Ireland occurred in September. With good preparation and wonderful assistance from the CIX staff the equipment was racked and online before lunchtime. The systems have been performing well with the singular issue being some faulty RAM modules. However our supplier in Europe, Servermall, provide a great warranty and the modules were promptly replaced.

The expansion of our colocation footprint to Cork means that we now have unlimited capacity in both Australia and Europe and will be able to roll out the full suite of offerings to both regions. North America will continue to be serviced from dedicated equipment supplied by OVH in Montreal.

Hetzner Falkenstein and OVH Lille shutdown

A good portion of our dedicated equipment in Germany and France has been terminated with services and applications being migrated to Cork.

Inter-region networking with Netbird

Systems across Melbourne, Cork and Montreal locations now have robust and secure private connectivity through the use of Mikrotik tools and deployment of the Netbird project through an on-prem instance. This will allow for the expansion and unification of load-balancing and management tools across all regions. It is also a mitigation against the challenges posed by IPv4 address exhaustion.

Diversification of DNS hosting providers

In an effort to increases network resilience, we moved some of our operational domains to Bunny.net. The geo-DNS and DNS scripting tools provided by Bunny will improve load-balancing and enable our upcoming CDN like service.