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Simple and flexible UK cloud infrastructure with awesome support.

#ruby #cloud #rails #devops #deployment #kubernetes

Websitehttps://www.brightbox.com
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Last call for our meet-up happening tonight in Manchester! We’re swapping the usual talks and code for cosy chats, good company, and a drink of whatever tickles your fancy.

Register to attend:

https://nwrug.org/events/festive-social-2025

NWRUG Event: Festive Social, Thursday 18th December

As the year winds down and the holiday cheer increases, it’s time for the annual NWRUG festive social! We’re swapping the usual talks and code for cosy chats...

@pwaring @penguin42 @mini yeah, we only do virtual servers not dedicated hardware. And our storage is all mirrored enterprise ssd, so isn't the cheapest for bulk storage. We have an object storage service that uses HDD (that stores 3 copies) but obviously is not a standard local mounted disk.

Our software may not be buzzword compliant, but it definitely stayed up today.

Just sayin’

(Hosted with @brightbox, no data leaves the UK, apart from email sends and the optional AutoDesk document viewer thing, which are both EU - although I think AutoDesk use AWS underneath it all)

We've been proud sponsors of @asciinema for over 10 years and it's been wonderful to see it keep getting better!

There were some big improvements to the CLI recently: https://blog.asciinema.org/post/three-point-o/

https://www.asciinema.org/

3.0 · asciinema blog

News about asciinema development and new releases

The Ruby community has a DHH problem

The Ruby community can no longer afford to stand silent in the face of DHH and his toxic ideas.

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Last time I promoted my company here, all I got was positive responses, and some new customers! So I'm going to do it again!

I run an independent UK cloud hosting company called @brightbox. We offer virtual servers, load balancers, SQL services, object storage, docker registry and more.

All entirely UK owned and operated.

We don't have a separate support department, any help you get is from an experienced ops person.

https://www.brightbox.com/

Ask me anything!

#datasovereignty #hosting #uk

UK Cloud Server Hosting & Cloud Hosting Providers

Brightbox provides simple and flexible UK owned and operated cloud hosting designed for 100% uptime. Get started now with £50 free credit.

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Your ebook and digital comic files are now stored with @brightbox.

They helped assuage our concerns about their Orbit product's future plans, so we wouldn't find ourselves in the same situation again. They also recommended rclone to help us migrate everyone's books from the previous hosts.

I not only want to work with the readers, authors, publishers and bookshops who like to do things well, but also with the technology companies who support us to do that too. 💜

Orbit, our object storage service, has seen some improvements recently. A few new features, better S3 compatibility and improved performance. Fully UK owned and operated too: https://www.brightbox.com/blog/2025/01/14/orbit-object-storage-updates/

#objectstorage #storage #cloudstorage #s3 #openstackswift

Orbit Object Storage updates

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Using S3cmd to manage files on Orbit object storage
https://www.brightbox.com/docs/guides/orbit/s3cmd/

#objectstorage #cloud #storage

Using S3cmd with Orbit

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PostgreSQL 17 now available in Cloud SQL

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