Your quarterly newsletter for keeping informed of the latest Cloud and Hosting news.
Each quarter, we provide your dose of information about the technology and marvels of the world of Cloud computing 🙂
Essential news
VPS: Incorporate snapshots into your backup strategy on GandiCloud VPS
At Gandi we are continuing our efforts to enrich our GandiCloud VPS product. If you want to keep a specific version of your disk, with the new snapshot feature on GandiCloud VPS, you can automate and capture as many snapshots that you want.
- Create a snapshot in a few seconds
- View a volume’s snapshots in dedicated list
- Delete a snapshot as easily as you created it
- Activate automatic snapshots on a volume
- Create a volume from a snapshot
Activate automatic snapshots on a volume
Video of the moment
Install WordPress on a web hosting instance in just a few clicks!
The process of creating a WordPress hosting instance has been completely revised and simplified!
You can now buy a domain name and automatically install your WordPress site on it.
You just need to choose the size of your hosting and your domain name, and that’s all you need to have your site online in less than 10 minutes!
Try out the automatic installation
What we’re reading
What is the environmental impact of manufacturing a server?
While there’s been a lot of talk these past few months about the environmental impact of the Cloud, modeling its real environmental footprint goes far beyond just the impact of power consumption in datacenters. In this detailed article, the Boavizta working group has outlined in complete transparency their method for estimating the environmental cost of the basic building block of the cloud: the server.
Read the article
Akamai acquires Linode for $900 million
Akamai, the CDN (Content Delivery Network) specialist, has acquired Linode, developer-oriented infrastructure service provider. This purchase should enable the multinational company to combine Linode’s IaaS solution with its own services (content distribution, edge network calculation, cybersecurity, etc.). And, by extension, consolidate its catalog.
Read the article
It’s time to stop using Google Analytics
If you’re looking for an open-source, European-hosted tool for keeping tabs on your website’s traffic, you might be interested in plausible.io. This new tool is intended to protect your data privacy and easy to install and use.
Check out their site
The cherry on top
We have now added NixOS 21.11 as a new supported image for our GandiCloud VPS product. You can now deploy a new GandiCloud server with NixOS!
See an example of launching a NixOS server on GandiCloud VPS
Last chance: get a deal on free web hosting!
April 2–3, 2022, Gandi sponsored the Journées du Logiciel Libre (Free Software Days), the Lyon-based annual meeting of all those who are interested in or passionate about free and open-source software.
To celebrate our involvement, we created the promo code JDLL2022GANDI. Use it before April 30, 2022 in your cart, and you’ll get 6 months of S+ web hosting free.
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