1&1 Internet AG joined the RING today. 1&1 - AS 8560 - is one of the worlds leading ISPs providing hosting, domains, mail services and internet access. They operate their own data centers in Germany and USA connected by a world-wide backbone with over 280Gbit/s of external connectivity.
Users can connect to oneandone01.ring.nlnog.net, which is located in Karlsruhe, Germany.
Nine Internet Solutions - AS29691 - joined the RING today. Nine is an Internet specialist ranging from simple Web Hosting up to comprehensive web platforms. Nine stands out of the crowd by not only providing convincing standard offers, but also by offering individual solutions that are tailor-made for your individual requirements. Additionally, their highly qualified and communicative staff offers you comprehensive consulting as well as high-quality support.
Users can connect to nine01.ring.nlnog.net, which is located in Zürich, Switzerland.
Redpill Linpro - AS 39029 - joined the RING today. Redpill Linpro is the leading provider of professional Open Source services and products in the Nordic region. They provide consulting, development, training, support and application management for many of the worlds leading Open Source software products.
Users can connect to redpilllinpro01.ring.nlnog.net, which is located in Oslo, Norway.
AS250.net - AS 250 - joined the RING today. The AS250.net is an approach to create independent infrastructure for Open Source and community projects. AS250.net as a 100% non-profit organisation operates a European backbone and PoPs as well as managed infrastructure for this purpose.
Users can connect to as250net01.ring.nlnog.net, which is located in Berlin, Germany.
In light of today’s IPv6 events around the globe: I’m happy to announce we now have a very special node in the RING!
OCCAID Inc - AS 30071 - is a completely non-profit consortium which works with ISP communities to help deploy IPv6 connectivity and encourage networks to connect to the IPv6 internet. Currently, OCCAID operates a global IPv6 network infrastructure to facilitate connections and cooperation with public communities for IPv6.
This particular node will be used to experiment with relaxing the strict requirement that nodes must have both an IPv4 and an IPv6 address. We plan to support IPv6-only nodes in the future and this node will show us what scripts, tools and management approaches need to be modified to support IPv6-only nodes. I expect at least Smokeping and Munin to break, possibly Nagios. We will fix these one by one in the next few days. So stay tuned for an authentic bumpy IPv6 ride, and please bear with us while we future-proof the RING. :-)
Users can connect to occaid01.ring.nlnog.net (only over IPv6!), which is located in Seattle, USA.
Your.Org - AS 19255 - joined the RING today. Your.Org does consulting and offers hosting services.
Users can connect to yourorg01.ring.nlnog.net, which is located in Chicago, United States.
RBNetwork - AS 58119 - joined the RING today. RBNetwork is a small company providing unix / bsd and network engineering services in Switzerland and the Principiality of Liechtenstein.
Users can connect to rbnetwork01.ring.nlnog.net, which is located in Eschen, Liechtenstein.
SpaceDump IT AB - AS 30880 - joined the RING today. Spacedump modestly describe themselves as “A small hosting provider in Sweden”.
Users can connect to spacedump01.ring.nlnog.net, which is located in Stockholm, Sweden.
Dear All,
We would like to share the supercalifragilisticexpialidocious results of our fund-raising effort with you!
Some background: In February 2012 we started a fundraiser to ensure the RING will have ample processing power for the next phase. Over the last 1.5 years the RING has grown to over one hundred nodes, and this was reaching the limitations of the current support systems. We are happy to announce these scalability problems are now a thing of the past!
We have raised a total of EUR 2200, brought together by the following generous organisations (listed in alphabetical order):
In addition, the following participants made significant non-monetary donations (listed in alphabetical order):
This brings us to a total of 5 servers dedicated to management, staging and other services, and two additional (virtual) servers for data crunching!
During the next couple of weeks we will be using the donated funds to purchase hardware, and/or upgrade the donated servers. We will report back to this list on how the different donations were put to use.
We expect the first new master server to go online before the end of this month!
We would like to express our gratitude to all parties that have made donations, and are helping us to make the RING a continued success.
Six Degrees Group - AS 20547 - joined the RING today. Six Degrees Group are a managed hosting, network, colocation and cloud services provider.
Users can connect to sixdegrees01.ring.nlnog.net, which is located in Studley, United Kingdom.