The Cloud Gazette – January 2022
Your quarterly newsletter for staying informed of the latest Cloud Hosting news
Launched in 2021, the Gandi Hosting and Cloud newsletter is back in the new year. Each quarter, we provide your dose of information about the technology and marvels of the world of Cloud computing 🙂 We hope you enjoy this edition and, on behalf of the entire Gandi team, we’d like to take the opportunity to wish you a very happy new year!
Essential news
VPS: 2 new configurations available for intensive use
GandiCloud VPS provides reliable, virtual services with completely transparent pricing and 100% open infrastructure. New VPS server configurations are now available to adapt as closely as possible to your needs.
VPS V-R12 with 6 CPU/ 12 GB RAM for $62.45/month
VPS V-R16 with 8 CPU/ 16 GB RAM for $106.20/month
You can now activate “rescue” mode on your VPS server
Rescue mode enables you to boot your server using a specific image in order to carry out necessary operations in complete security.
This feature is barely out, and already some of you have figured out how to install operating systems not offered by Gandi, like OpenBSD!
What we’re reading
WordPress makes the RC 1 of version 5.9 available
There are three ways you can test WordPress version 5.9 RC 1: with the WordPress Beta Tester plugin, by directly downloading the new version, or using WP-CLI. The release of a stable version of version 5.9 is set for January 25.
There’s more in life than just GitHub/GitLab 😉
Administrators often choose to publish on GitHub. Many others opt for GitLab, via gitlab.com or a local instance. The free software cluster Etalab publishes some of its source code on SourceHut. Why?
Is the log4j incident a symptom of a wider problem?
Many have suggested that better financing of open source projects might have prevented the log4j security vulnerability from happening. But what if the biggest problem wasn’t the lack of financing?
The cherry on top
PHP 8.1 is now available: what’s new in this update?
A new version of the PHP language, PHP 8.1, came out November 25, 2021. In the announcement, php.net promised to provide “Better performance, better syntax, improved type safety.”
We summed up what seemed most useful to note about this version here.
Awesome Gandi \o/
We recently created the Git repository awesome-gandi in our GitHub organization, in order to reference external resources linked to our products (libraries, clients, docs, etc.)
Come check it out and feel free to add projects that we might have forgotten!
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