Faelix Blog and News

19 September 2016 / by Marek / Geneva, meta, Hosting + VPS.

Expanding to Geneva

An introduction to our recent hosting expansion project: servers in the Swiss Alps!

12 September 2016 / by Marek / Networks, Linux, Ganeti, Geneva, MikroTik, Salt + meta.

Build in Geneva

Some technical information about our hosting infrastructure build in Geneva, and how we plan to use this expansion to help us focus on business continuity and resilience.

25 August 2016 / by Marek / Wireless, Fixed Wireless Access, Internet, WiFi, Music, MikroTik + Ubiquiti.

Music Festival Wi-Fi at Infest 2016

Working in partnership with a local ISP to bring free open wifi to a three day music festival.

21 June 2016 / by Marek / FAELIX, meta + Customer Relationship Management.

Ten

Happy birthday… to us!

08 December 2015 / by Marek / Networks, IPv6, Security + Remote Access.

tunnel.cat

Faelix provides off-site backup storage to several businesses. Some have bought a NAS for their office and a NAS to store in our racks. Some have a NAS in their office and rent off-site storage from Faelix. This gives peace of mind should a disaster befall a client's files. In all cases, though, customers want to be able to access their data while out of their office. How can we help?

01 October 2015 / by Marek / BGP, Routing, Linux, Linux, MikroTik + NTP.

Network at Faelix

Triangles are solid and stable shapes, and for that reason they form the basis of our upgraded network. Our core network in Manchester Reynolds House looks a lot like a pentagram: no link is a single point of failure. Also, we are one of the few small ISPs to run more than one routing platform, which has isolated us from catastrophic implementation bugs if we had just one vendor involved.

22 July 2015 / by Marek / VPS, Ganeti, Hosting, Xen + Networks.

Ganeti at Faelix

At Faelix, we love virtualisation technology. Ganeti is a virtualisation management system built by Google, and written in our favourite programming language, Python. This year we upgraded our hosting hardware, and when we did, we moved our virtual server hosting platform from our in-house script-based system to Ganeti. There were a few bumps and hiccups along the way, so this is how we did it.

26 June 2015 / by Marek / Security, Systems Administration, Linux, Malware, Distributed Denial of Service Attack + Tech Deep Dives.

Anatomy of a WordPress Hack

In which Faelix performs some forensics on a customer's infected WordPress website.

05 April 2015 / by Marek / Networks, Wireless, Fixed Wireless Access + MikroTik.

Line of Sight Wireless Circuits

What to do when you have no line of sight? We took a chance, and it actually worked out!

18 March 2015 / by Marek / Security + Linux.

It's 2015 and there are more security holes than ever!

In April 2014, after having lain in the code since December 2011, the discovery of the Heartbleed bug in OpenSSL was announced. Since then, it seems like barely a month has gone by without a major security hole in a major piece of infrastructure. Security seems to be getting worse rather than better. How come?