Debian 8 Jessie is now available for traditional automatic installation. It was already available in Flex* mode.

Jessie comes with a new default init system called systemd. The systemd suite provides several exciting features such as faster boot times, cgroups for services, and the ability to isolate certain services. However, the sysvinit init system is still available for Jessie.

This release includes a significant number of updated software packages, such as:

Apache 2.4.10

Asterisk 11.13.1

GNU Build Collection 4.9.2

Linux 3.16.7-ckt9

MariaDB 10.0.16 and MySQL 5.5.42

Nagios 3.5.1

OpenJDK 7u75

Perl 5.20.2

PHP 5.6.7

PostgreSQL 9.4.1

Python 2.7.9 and 3.4.2

Samba 4.1.17

Tomcat 7.0.56 and 8.0.14

Xen Hypervisor 4.4.1

Over 43,000 ready-to-use packages, built from nearly 20,100 source packages.

Following a problem with one of our electrical panels, we had to perform emergency maintenance on one of our hosting rooms (nearly 500 services). We therefore notified our clients of a 45-minute power outage 30 minutes beforehand. Right in the middle of the holiday season, with a reduced team.

Unfortunately, during the 30-minute restoration, one of our core network switches rebooted with an old configuration, causing a global incident that was difficult to manage. As a result, we experienced an incident that lasted not just 45 minutes in a single room, but more than two hours across the entire OrdCom network.

We had to check the services one by one. A significant number of machines did not restart properly. Configuration issues, disk problems, etc., were the cause. Also, some didn't actually restart until late in the day.

Finally, due to this important recovery work and the period, we were unable to communicate properly and we apologize for this.

Since the beginning of January, we've noticed a resurgence of security issues on the Internet.

Website hacks, attempted SSH penetrations using dictionary methods, denial of service attacks, etc.

The most recent being the exploitation of an OSPF vulnerability in one of our routers, which disrupted the broadcasting of routes to connected services. This caused a major network disruption for 5 to 8 minutes yesterday (12/01/15) and for 20 minutes later that evening. The issue has been identified and the vulnerability is now fixed.

We therefore encourage our customers to audit their services. Rkunter and chkrootkit will help you detect potential problems. A #netstat -laputen command is also useful to see which services are listening on the network.

Finally, we recommend changing your SSH passwords to a mix of uppercase and lowercase letters and numbers.

The fail2ban tool is also a good solution to avoid ssh dictionary attacks.

The latest version of Debian is finally out. It's version 7, known as Wheezy.

It's now available for automatic installation. Two modes are possible: Simple, with everything installed on a single EXT4 partition, and Advanced via SSH.

By logging in via SSH with the "install" user, you can perform an advanced installation and partition disks and RAID as you see fit.

OrdCom has just extended its network by 500 km, reaching Amsterdam, Holland, and has connected to one of the largest Internet exchange points
in the world, the Amsterdam Internet Exchange (AMS-IX).

The Internet, being a network of networks, is built on exchanges.
This is where exchange points (IXPs) come into play: the networks of service providers (ISPs), telecom operators, access providers (ISPs), and hosting providers can exchange traffic directly.

Thus, more than 56,000 additional networks (routes) are directly
connected to OrdCom's network, representing more than 10% of the global Internet (which has approximately 440,000+ V4 routes). Many new exchange requests are still being negotiated.

This operation (which wasn't without some issues) is worth it, as it provides many more direct connections for your services and infrastructures hosted by OrdCom. That's now over 60,000 V4 routes. The direct consequences are better throughput, less latency, more security, and greater stability.

Next stop: London with Linx.

More information on AMX-IX: http://www.ams-ix.net

OrdCom's peering policy is, as usual, open, and all agreements are welcome. If you are an AS interested in peering with the OrdCom network (AS), please contact us: contact@ordcom.net We are present on FranceIX and via SFINX in Paris and now AMS-IX in Amsterdam.

Prices are reduced at the beginning of the year for new OrdCom service orders. If you choose to pay over 3, 6, or 12 months, you can benefit from discounts of up to 20% for certain services. The first configuration is available from €11.99 excluding VAT / month instead of €14.99 excluding VAT.

Dedicated services, transit, housing, hosting infrastructure: many new features are available to discover in OrdCom's offerings.

Dedicated Services: New Enterprise-Class Configurations

Evolution of Intel XEON services, with new components on dual-processors:

LSI Hard RAID SAS drives, designed for 24/7 operation, with a proven reliability of 1.2 million hours
ECC RAM
Up to six drives of 3TB each

New: AMD Opteron services (dual or quad-processor), including the OC Pro, a quad-processor machine
built specifically for the cloud and virtualization: ideal for those of you who want to sell VMs
- Up to 256 GB of RAM (and 512 GB on request)
- Up to eight SAS drives of 3TB each
- A 2x1 Gbps connection
- LSI Hard RAID

Other New Features
- Free installation fees
- Up to 100 GB of free FTP backup space
- And as a reminder, now unlimited bandwidth

Solutions Hosting Infrastructure

New offerings for web professionals: customized and scalable infrastructures
- High-availability application hosting (redundancy, load balancing, MySQL cluster, etc.)
- Cloud computing solutions: multiple multi-core machines interconnected in a private network to migrate VMs, NAS, etc.
- Neutral hosting: rent and operate your own hosting infrastructure under your brand name
- Colocation in Strasbourg

Network Solutions

Customized very high-speed offers

- Interconnection/point-to-point between Strasbourg, Lyon, and Paris, via optical link up to 40 Gbps
- Transit

All dedicated service plans are now offering unlimited traffic.

From now on, you no longer have to worry about respecting your transfer quotas!

Although these quotas are relatively high (5,000 GB for the Stud plan, 10,000 for the Perso plan, and 20,000 for the Pro plan), they were a legitimate concern in the event of a denial of service attack or a major traffic incident.

In addition to "best effort" bandwidth, you now benefit from a premium bandwidth of 250 Mbps guaranteed per account for unlimited traffic.

OrdCom now exchanges approximately 10,900 IPV4 routes and nearly 500 IPV6 routes with 86 service providers (AS). This provides your dedicated services with more direct connections, higher throughput, and minimized latency.

If you are a Numéricable customer, for example, the hunt for milliseconds has been yielding significant results over the past few days. Other benefits include optimized data exchanges with services in other data centers, more efficient services (access to AFNIC DNS roots for the French Internet, indexing of your sites by Google, etc.). A list of the providers with which OrdCom exchanges can be viewed at https://www.ordcom.net/networks.php .

OrdCom's peering policy is open. We hope to see new agreements concluded, while regretting that some telecom operators are not fully participating, to the detriment of network users.

If you are an AS interested in exchanging with the OrdCom network (AS), do not hesitate to contact us: contact@ordcom.net

From now on, no more worries about respecting transfer quotas!

Although these quotas are relatively high (5,000 GB for the Stud plan, 10,000 GB for the Perso plan, and 20,000 GB for the Pro plan), they raised legitimate concerns in the event of a denial of service attack or significant traffic disruption.

In addition to "best effort" bandwidth, you now benefit from a premium bandwidth of 250 Mbps guaranteed per account for unlimited traffic.