As we’re moving towards winter (in the Northern hemisphere at least), we want to give you three early Christmas presents. Major price drop on CPU and RAM Just a few months ago, we announced a major price drop. Now it’s time again. This time we’re dropping the prices by 15% on CPU and 20% on RAM (on both our cloud …
Join us at Failcon
As a company that recognizes that failure is an important part of success, we’re happy to sponsor Failcon. If you’re not familiar with Failcon, it is a conference devoded to learning from other’s failures, and avoid doing them yourself. Make sure to check out the speaker list. Also, it’s not too late to register for the conference. Make sure you …
CloudSigma CEO Speaking about SDN for the Cloud at SDN & OpenFlow World Congress
Not surprisingly, Software Defined Networking emerged from the data center, motivated by the growing demand for cloud services. Automation, flexible and efficient allocation of bandwidth, and multi-tenancy offer cloud operators the agility and efficiency they are seeking to thrive in an increasingly competitive marketplace, while enabling them to streamline operations to reduce OpEx. Take your opportunity to join our CEO, …
Conference Season is Here! CloudSigma is On the Road At Cloud Computing Events
If we’re not advising customers on how to efficiently leverage CloudSigma compute power for their workloads, or on an airplane traveling between data center locations, you can often find our executive team on stage and on the expo floor of some of the industry’s biggest trade shows. Following the quieter summer months, our COO, Bernino Lind, kicked off a flurry …
Running FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD in the cloud
With our sponsorship of EuroBSDcon 2013, a blog-post on the topic of FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD felt in order. If you didn’t already know it, we’re one of the few cloud providers in the world that allows you to run unmodified FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD (including derivatives, such as pfSense). If you simply want to take one of these systems …
Simplifying maintenance with fabric and pycloudsigma
When you’re working with a cloud infrastructure, it’s pretty common that you need to perform the same task on all your servers. Perhaps you need deploy a hotfix, or simply just check what kernel version your servers are running. The traditional sysadmin way of doing this was to simply write a for-loop in shell-script which fires off the execution of …
Spectacular 20% Bonus on ALL Deposits in September
Since launching our upgraded platform we’ve been able to implement major improvements in utilisation and resource management. As a result we’re delighted to offer all existing and new customers a special limited time deal: Until the end of September, for any funds deposited into CloudSigma accounts, we will add a BONUS 20% on top! Get Started! Example: You deposit: $100 …
Join us at EuroBSDcon 2013
We’re happy to announce that we are sponsoring the annual European BSD conference, EuroBSDcon, which will be held on Malta this year. The line up for this year’s conference is very exciting, with a lot of big names from the Open Source community. Since many of us here at CloudSigma have been long-time FreeBSD users (yours truly included), we’re really …
Virtual machines and disk expansion
Disclaimer: Before we begin, we need to point out that there is always a risk of data loss when you are doing disk expansion. Hence, you should always back up your data before you begin. We do not assume any responsibility for data loss caused by this guide. It is up to you to take proper backups. One of the …
Introducing server contextualization
We’re excited to announce the support for server contextualization. This means that you can post various meta data to either your server or drive definition (via the API), and then read it back from within the actual server. This has been a popular feature request, since it is applicable to a wide array of tasks. Two of the most common …
Introducing CloudSigma badges
Recently we have been receiving requests from customers who want to proudly show off the fact that they are using CloudSigma to power their website and services. We are very flattered, and felt that we couldn’t pass up such a great opportunity to collaborate with customers. We asked one of our designers to create a few different badges for customers …
Join CloudSigma at IBC 2013
This September, our next stop is IBC 2013! Known as on of the biggest media shows in the world, IBC is an event where more than 50,000 prospects, press and power-brokers from over 160 countries make IBC their essential destination to learn what makes the industry tick. Come speak with our team – we’ve got some great live demos going …