Between August and September there’s quite a shift. August still belongs to the lackadaisical dog days of summer, when the days drift by, tugged along in the languid current of time. August is a little interlude in the year, before September set us back along the path of the year with renewed vigor.

This is sort of the dynamic we’ve seen this month here too. New releases have been hitting production on our new platform, Gandi V5 all month. As we have been every month, we’ll devote a bit of time to check in on how that’s coming along. One new feature we’ve introduced was our new SSL management interface, along with a new Simple Hosting instance size, S+, which notably allows installation of free SSL certificates. As we approach the end of FR-SD2, we’ve also published the latest migration plan. Needless to say, we’ve been keeping busy. But don’t worry, we’re not locking ourselves away just yet, we’re still out and about. This month we were at the APNIC 44 conference and coming up, you can catch us at Paris Web as well.

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1. #gandiV5: Coming soon

Gandi V5 is, of course, still a work in progress. We still have to get a couple more features ported over to the new platform and while the features on the new platform are in place, there’s still some minor tweaks we’d like to make on the interface and site design.

That said, as we’re putting these last pieces into place, we’re getting closer and closer to completion.

See what’s left to roll out and when to expect it

2. Simple Hosting S+ now available

One of those pieces we’d like to highlight is that our new SSL certificate management interface is now available on Gandi V5.

Along with the introduction of this new interface, we’re also introducing a new Simple Hosting instance size: S+. A size S+ instance allows you to install SSL certificates (not available on size S), without having to upgrade to a size M, which often includes more resources than those who manage smaller websites need, and is therefore not as economical.

Find out how you can benefit from these new possibilities

3. Closing FR-SD2: a new migration plan

And looking at our objectives for the rest of the year, now that FR-SD3 is up and running and FR-SD5 and FR-SD6 are on their way, in anticipation of closing FR-SD2 later this year, we’re suggesting that those hosting on FR-SD2 start the process of migration now.

Since we first communicated about this closure and the required migration, we’ve made some tweaks to the process, especially some we made by popular demand after hearing your input.

Follow the new migration plan

4. Gandi Events

At the beginning of this month, Gandi participated in the APNIC 44 conference in Taichung, Taiwan.

APNIC is the Asia-Pacific Network Information Centre, the regional registry for the entire Asia-Pacific region.

Among other things, Gandi attended talks about the Root Zone KSK Rollover and IPv6 and security.

Read all about Gandi’s participation

And coming up at the beginning of next month, from October 5 through 7, Gandi will be one of the sponsors of the 12th edition of Paris Web. Several of our team members will be attending, so if you plan on going yourselves, let us know! We’d be happy to meet up.

Sign up for or find out more about Paris Web

5. TLD release calendar

This month, only one TLD will be, or in this case has been, released: .boston entered the GoLive phase on September 15.

6. Promo round-up

And finally it’s time for this month’s promo roundup! As we mentioned above, after a bit of a dry spell, we had quite a few promos this month:

There are plenty of ongoing promos as well:

Be sure to check the Promotions tag on our news site for updates.

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And with that we look forward to the more swiftly-moving months ahead that will propel us into the end of the year, which should bring along with it the completion of the process we launched at the beginning of this year. Of course, none of this is possible without your input. If you’d like to share your thoughts on our newsletter, feel free to email us at newsletter-en@gandi.net. For all general feedback, email feedback@gandi.net.

You can also reach us on Twitter, on Facebook, or in the #gandi channel on Freenode.

Sincerely,

Gandi.net

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