This is how we have taken our infrastructure to the next level

jmginer · March 10

A week of migration. Three months of preparation. A major infrastructure leap we had been wanting to make for a long time.

A few days ago, we completed one of the most ambitious interventions we have ever carried out at GINERNET: the consolidation of equipment that had been spread across 3 racks in 2 different data centers into a single room at Digital Realty Madrid.

The physical result speaks for itself: 800mm racks in a room adjacent to the datacenter’s NOC and freight elevator, giving us intervention and deployment times that would previously have been unthinkable. And with no Meet Me Room in between to interconnect our own equipment.

But the most important change has been the logical one.

After 3 months of research and lab implementation, we deployed a full Spine & Leaf architecture on Arista, with VXLAN as the overlay plane and EVPN as the signaling protocol. This has allowed us to:

✅ Eliminate Spanning Tree: STP disabled across the entire network. No loops, no slow convergence, no blocked ports wasting capacity.

✅ Drastically reduce the ARP broadcast domain: With a distributed anycast gateway on every leaf and an L3VNI for the customer VRF, ARP no longer floods the network. Real scalability for thousands of VMs.

✅ Active-active ECMP toward the core: Traffic is distributed across multiple paths simultaneously, with no standby routes.

✅ Workload mobility between any rack without changing IPs or gateways.

It has been a tough week. But it is one of those weeks where, once it is over, you look back and know it was worth it.

📸 This is how it turned out.

rpqu · March 10

deals?

fluffernutter · March 12

this is awesome! nice work

Nyr · March 12

Long time no see!

Good to see you growing

yoursunny · March 12

Congrats.
The IPMI ports need some out of band management cables.
The SFP ports need some redundancies to protect against switch failure.
The boy in cargo pants needs a belt.

JasonM · March 13

wow.
deals?

JoshR · March 13

@jmginer What is that console cable switch thing?

jsg · March 13

Congrats, @jmginer!

DP · March 13

Congratulations!

Can we get some deals, please?

MikePT · March 13

Looks fantastic, congratulations!

TimboJones · March 14

@yoursunny said:
The boy in cargo pants needs a belt.

I think he needs bigger pants.

jmginer · July 4

@DP said:
Congratulations!

Can we get some deals, please?

Of course! Just ask our Manager Operator in the Matrix
Follow the white rabbit
🐇 https://manager.ginernet.com/matrix

Saragoldfarb · July 4

Noice. Please bring back the 15?/y Madrid vps

nghialele · July 4

So your server is no handle by 3 naked strong men

Saragoldfarb · July 4

@nghialele said:
So your server is no handle by 3 naked strong men

No. They strong and potent but not nekkid. Them Spanish guys got class.

zGato · July 4

@Saragoldfarb said:

@nghialele said:
So your server is no handle by 3 naked strong men

No. They strong and potent but not nekkid. Them Spanish guys got class.

can ddr confirm

zGato · July 6

Very cool, new manager comes with new features! KYC!

The most bullshit excuse I've ever heard to data harvest

And yes, it's totally mandatory. Otherwise, you lose access to the panel but won't to the VPS? How does that even make any sense?
Quoting:

Identity verification: This has nothing to do with your specific account 
or any issue; it’s a new feature of the updated dashboard that 
we’re requesting for all accounts for security purposes. It’s a one-time process, 
conducted by Didit (a European provider that complies with the GDPR; we do not store 
images or biometric data). In addition to strengthening your account, it enables 
password recovery using your face (in case you ever lose your 
password), and we’ll credit you with a bonus balance once you complete it (you’ll find it 
in the Dashboard, in the bonuses section). If the deadline passes, 
no services are affected: your VPS servers continue to operate normally; 
only access to the control panel is restricted until you complete the 
verification.

@jmginer shame on you.

plumberg · July 6

@zGato said:
Very cool, new manager comes with new features! KYC!

The most bullshit excuse I've ever heard to data harvest

And yes, it's totally mandatory. Otherwise, you lose access to the panel but won't to the VPS? How does that even make any sense?
Quoting:

Identity verification: This has nothing to do with your specific account 
or any issue; it’s a new feature of the updated dashboard that 
we’re requesting for all accounts for security purposes. It’s a one-time process, 
conducted by Didit (a European provider that complies with the GDPR; we do not store 
images or biometric data). In addition to strengthening your account, it enables 
password recovery using your face (in case you ever lose your 
password), and we’ll credit you with a bonus balance once you complete it (you’ll find it 
in the Dashboard, in the bonuses section). If the deadline passes, 
no services are affected: your VPS servers continue to operate normally; 
only access to the control panel is restricted until you complete the 
verification.

@jmginer shame on you.

Please send 22k BTC to consider KYc komplete

stable_genius · July 6

Picture #5 looks like a dimly lit modern art gallery. Nice.

Now I wonder, how many dimly lit modern art galleries have KYC as mandatory?

zed · July 6

wow give up your face for access to a vps, thanks for the warning.

c1vhosting · July 6

@jmginer said:
A week of migration. Three months of preparation. A major infrastructure leap we had been wanting to make for a long time.

A few days ago, we completed one of the most ambitious interventions we have ever carried out at GINERNET: the consolidation of equipment that had been spread across 3 racks in 2 different data centers into a single room at Digital Realty Madrid.

The physical result speaks for itself: 800mm racks in a room adjacent to the datacenter’s NOC and freight elevator, giving us intervention and deployment times that would previously have been unthinkable. And with no Meet Me Room in between to interconnect our own equipment.

But the most important change has been the logical one.

After 3 months of research and lab implementation, we deployed a full Spine & Leaf architecture on Arista, with VXLAN as the overlay plane and EVPN as the signaling protocol. This has allowed us to:

✅ Eliminate Spanning Tree: STP disabled across the entire network. No loops, no slow convergence, no blocked ports wasting capacity.

✅ Drastically reduce the ARP broadcast domain: With a distributed anycast gateway on every leaf and an L3VNI for the customer VRF, ARP no longer floods the network. Real scalability for thousands of VMs.

✅ Active-active ECMP toward the core: Traffic is distributed across multiple paths simultaneously, with no standby routes.

✅ Workload mobility between any rack without changing IPs or gateways.

It has been a tough week. But it is one of those weeks where, once it is over, you look back and know it was worth it.

📸 This is how it turned out.

Congrats, looks really good and well mantained

totally_not_banned · July 6

@zGato said:
Very cool, new manager comes with new features! KYC!

The most bullshit excuse I've ever heard to data harvest

And yes, it's totally mandatory. Otherwise, you lose access to the panel but won't to the VPS? How does that even make any sense?
Quoting:

Identity verification: This has nothing to do with your specific account 
or any issue; it’s a new feature of the updated dashboard that 
we’re requesting for all accounts for security purposes. It’s a one-time process, 
conducted by Didit (a European provider that complies with the GDPR; we do not store 
images or biometric data). In addition to strengthening your account, it enables 
password recovery using your face (in case you ever lose your 
password), and we’ll credit you with a bonus balance once you complete it (you’ll find it 
in the Dashboard, in the bonuses section). If the deadline passes, 
no services are affected: your VPS servers continue to operate normally; 
only access to the control panel is restricted until you complete the 
verification.

@jmginer shame on you.

150% hard pass. No deal in the world would make me sign up for that.

Requiring it retrospectively for existing clients with actual services would make it even worse. At this point it's pretty much extortion: "Do it or at the very least lose the ability to manage the service you paid for". If you are unlucky you'll also have to deal with a bunch of nonsense due to no longer being able to open tickets or even just cancel those services you have been locked out from.

inoricat · July 6

@zGato said:
Very cool, new manager comes with new features! KYC!

The most bullshit excuse I've ever heard to data harvest

And yes, it's totally mandatory. Otherwise, you lose access to the panel but won't to the VPS? How does that even make any sense?
Quoting:

Identity verification: This has nothing to do with your specific account 
or any issue; it’s a new feature of the updated dashboard that 
we’re requesting for all accounts for security purposes. It’s a one-time process, 
conducted by Didit (a European provider that complies with the GDPR; we do not store 
images or biometric data). In addition to strengthening your account, it enables 
password recovery using your face (in case you ever lose your 
password), and we’ll credit you with a bonus balance once you complete it (you’ll find it 
in the Dashboard, in the bonuses section). If the deadline passes, 
no services are affected: your VPS servers continue to operate normally; 
only access to the control panel is restricted until you complete the 
verification.

@jmginer shame on you.

As of the email yesterday it seemed like you could only "reset" your password through KYC. Today they fixed it to just require email, but upon doing it, now they impose a time limit for it. Wish I had never opened this new dash.

Had used a VPS with them for a long time as it was 100% stable (except while the DC migration thing happened) and 0 issues. Use case being a wireguard entrypoint for rest of lab + other lightweight remote tools. Sad to receive this treatment for no reason... Why would they need this verification when they already have a bunch other data about you (tax ID among other stuff)

praveen · July 6

congratulations! great job.

fazar · July 6

awesome setup! 💯

TimboJones · July 6

Blue line cords? Wtf!

forest · July 7

So let me get this straight...

You're demanding face scans to keep an already-purchased VPS?

You've gotta be fucking kidding me.

totally_not_banned · July 7

@forest said:

demanding

Demanding is such a harsh word. Let's rather call it "buying at a very generous rate of 5€".

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