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PHP-Friends News
News from https://php-friends.de/neuigkeiten/neuigkeiten-zum-jahresende-fusion
XMAS Special coming this evening.
Dear customers,
Another year is drawing to a close and some of you will remember that we announced last minute news on our social media channels in the middle of October. Shortly afterwards, we reported on the extensive expansion of our capacities at the maincubes data center. We are happy to announce today that that wasn't all. :-)
The topics of this news:
Opening of another POP
Own connection to Deutsche Telekom
PHP-Friends GmbH becomes dataforest GmbH
Changes in management
Support between the holidays
Update of our website / release housing products
Winter special
Opening of another POPAt the end of November, we put our first equipment into operation at the Interxion site. The aim of the new POP (Point of Presence) is the connection to other networks, as the choice at our main location is limited in the long term - compared to the large "carrier hotels". We have therefore decided to invest in another location where part of our edge routing is to be operated in the long term. The two locations are connected via our own dark fiber over a length of around 10 km, which we successfully tested and put into operation at the beginning of December.
In the medium term, we are planning to outsource our backup servers, on which vServers with booked backup features and managed servers are backed up, to this location, so that off-site backups are then standard. This request was brought to us many times, especially after the fire at the OVH data center SBG2, in which all servers burned down irrevocably. Although the risk in our data center is significantly lower due to fire protection zones, redundant gas extinguishing systems and the lack of batteries in the UPS (which presumably triggered the OVH fire), we are happy to comply with this understandable request.
Own connection to Deutsche Telekom AG (DTAG)
Of course, when we ordered the Dark Fiber and purchased the Interxion, we already had a specific purpose in mind. We started negotiations with Deutsche Telekom as early as the summer, as customers repeatedly asked for a direct connection to this, but unfortunately DTAG does not peer at DE-CIX (to which we have been connected since March). Our direct connection to DTAG has been active since December 3rd, 2021 and ensures even better latencies and stability. And not just to DTAG itself: We also actively route some selected networks such as T-Mobile Austria via DTAG. Basically, we always make our routing decisions according to the best route and not according to costs, since our goal is always the best possible traffic mix. As a rule, we can reach direct customers and partners of Deutsche Telekom best via Telekom itself, and we therefore prefer this route in such cases. With the connection to Telekom, we are further improving our network quality and meeting a wide range of customer requests.
PHP-Friends GmbH becomes dataforest GmbH
Ten months after the start of planning, we can finally announce what has been burning on our lips for months: PHP-Friends GmbH is merging (merging) with Harmony Solutions GmbH and will appear on the market together as dataforest GmbH in the future. The corresponding contracts were signed a week ago and notarized. In this context, we expect some understandable questions and are happy to answer them now (and of course we are happy to answer any further questions).
Who is Harmony Solutions GmbH?
"Harmony" operates the hosting label Avoro and has made a name for itself in recent years, particularly in the prepaid area. However, that alone is not the reason for the merger. Rather, we have been working together for years, to be precise since Avoro was founded in 2017 - the very first server was housed in PHP-Friends 'housing and over the years Avoro has developed into PHP-Friends' largest customer, the not only pursued a similar “spirit”, but also offered many products more or less identically. At some point, jointly appearing on the market was the only logical step from which we expect less “overhead”, since, for example, software no longer has to be developed twice, technical infrastructures can be operated jointly and internal processes become leaner. We therefore sealed this step in February 2021 and have been actively working on the merger ever since.
What will change with the merger?
Apart from a new company address, nothing will change for you. This is due in particular to the close cooperation described in the past: Employees of PHP-Friends GmbH were already working for Avoro and vice versa. Personnel (with the exception of business
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always liked avoro and great this happened, we will get cheaper deals!
With the new flammable name like that, it makes sense.
BTW, I was surprised that PHP-Friends sent a paper receipt to my house.
I got nervous at first thinking I did something wrong.
A newsletter? Never got something postally from them.
No, just a receipt of VPS deal.
I recently got this.
https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/175243/
Off-topic, but do they have nested virtualization enabled on their dedicated cpu VPSs?
Netcup's virt is disabled right?
Yes and yes.
to people new at this, just remember the words unlimted and/or free BW is NOT Really,
no one offered or can offer free unlimited BW:
https://php-friends.de/vserver-ssd/traffic
https://php-friends.de/vserver-ssd/vserver-winterspecial-2021-ssd-mini
No monthly or even 3 months payment option?
Yea' we need per month pricing otherwise.. I am 100% sure I will not need this 6 months from now, but could use it for some testings over next couple months
This needs a short version XD
Any yabs?
What’s the signup process like do you need to verify ID and send documents etc etc?
this is a beast.
Seems to be somewhat like the BF deal, anyone got any YABS for this or from BF ?
Can someone tell me some use cases for this offer?
It runs yabs
Premium - Dedicated Cores Idling.
oh... shit. what did you do...
i want it, but, i don't want it...
biggest dilemma
anyone got a YABS?
too late...
soon.
Picked one up. Waiting for it to provision.
Ya got one as well? I thought PHP friends was instant provisioning.
such offers in Frankfurt are some kind of weak spot... so 🤷🏻♂️
regarding instant provisioning I honestly can't remember. could well be that special offers are not or so... last order I had with them is two years ago.
Awesome! Post a YABS when yours provisions! Will do the same. Just waiting for v3/v4 lottery now haha
will do.
however be patient. it's past 7 pm here and the guys hoepfully sit under the christmas tree with their families... if it gets delivered only monday it'd still be fine. people shall have their holidays ;-)
Absolutely