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Incident write-ups, hardware numbers, policy decisions and the occasional argument. Written by the people who hold root.
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2026-02-13
operations
Post-mortem: two NVMe drives, one mirror, four minutes
On 11 February a firmware bug took out both halves of a RAID-10 mirror in Frankfurt. 218 instances were affected. Nobody lost data. Here is exactly what happened.
Infrastructure
8 min
2025-12-04
network
Absorbing 1.9 Tbit/s without waking anyone up
The largest attack we have taken hit an Amsterdam customer on 30 November. Mitigation engaged in 3.1 seconds; the neighbours never noticed.
Network
5 min
2025-09-22
policy
What we hand over, and what we do not
Fourteen law-enforcement requests reached us last year. This is what we gave, what we refused, and why the answer is usually short.
Policy
7 min
2025-05-14
hardware
What the Genoa migration actually bought
Eighteen months after moving the fleet to EPYC 9004, here are the before-and-after numbers — including the one that went the wrong way.
Infrastructure
6 min
2024-11-19
operations
Port 25, and why deliverability is a policy problem
Self-hosted mail fails on reputation, not software. What we do about it, and what you have to do yourself.
Operations
5 min
2024-11-04
company
Ten years, and a price cut instead of a party
Echelon turned ten this month. We marked it by lowering the twelve-month rate on every plan.
Company
4 min
2022-10-12
company
European power tripled. We ate it.
Repricing mid-term would have been legal and would have been wrong. Here is what it cost us to hold the line.
Company
5 min
2019-06-27
policy
We stopped taking cards today
A fourth acquirer asked for customer identity documents. Rather than collect them, we retired card processing entirely.
Company
4 min
2018-03-15
network
How we decide where to put a rack
Four criteria, in order, and the reason we have turned down more sites than we have opened.
Infrastructure
6 min