Newsletter April 2020

For a good part of the world, April has been a month spent largely at home. Whether it be through helping you to stay organized or sharing with you the latest information about the market, we’re grateful to be able to share with you the latest Gandi news during this crisis. Above all, take care of yourselves.

The Latest Gandi News:

The latest updates you’ll need to know about domains and COVID-19
A look at free tools for efficient remote work
Best practices for backing up your data
The winners of the #PrintMyGandi t-shirt design contest
Promo roundup

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1. Special Gandi COVID-19 report: some useful information

While all Gandi teams are working hard to ensure the continuity of our services, we wanted to go a bit further and help you follow more closely what’s going on in the world of Gandi during this crisis. In this special report, you’ll find:

Best practices to ensure the continuity of your online activity
Information about cybersecurity threats arising in light of the situation
A list of all the special measures being taken by domain registries
Projects we are supporting to help out during this crisis

2. Free tools to help you more efficiently work from home

Working from home has become the new norm for millions of workers around the world. But getting set up to do so hasn’t always been easy. We compiled a list of some free, open source tools that let you work efficiently from home while keeping your business running. Share files with Nextcloud, edit text with Etherpad, make conference calls with Mumble or video conference with Jitsi, or chat with Mattermost. Follow our guides and tutorials to install these on your Gandi hosting services.

3. Our series on backups

World Backup Day took place this month and to celebrate, we assembled some best practices for backing up your data. These uncertain times give us all the more justification for wanting to ensure we can recover when the unthinkable happens to our data. Follow our guide and remember—3-2-1 is the golden rule! Part two covers how to backup your website on a Simple Hosting instance.

4. The winners of the #PrintMyGandi t-shirt design contest

Since our contest was launched prior to the disruption of the global pandemic, we decided to proceed with our #PrintMyGandi t-shirt design contest as planned. And now that the contest is over, we’re announcing the winners! Out of more than 100 participants, three winners were chosen by their popularity on Twitter. We’re proud to announce the winning designs of the Gandi20 collector t-shirts.

5. Promo roundup

Here’s a look at some ongoing promotions this month.

To help facilitate the activity of non-profit organizations, the promotion on .org has been extended until June 30.

Seventeen domains from Afilias are also on sale.

And now is your last chance to take advantage of the promotion on .email, .network, .ninja, .rocks, .services, and .solutions available until April 30.

All our promos can also be found on our News site.

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