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From the 1st of September we will be changing ISP. We are in no way unhappy with our current ISP Bredband2, but we want to try to explore the world of 1000/1000 Mbit Full duplex. As most of the readers know we have 100/100 Mbit now. So we’ve decided to give PirateISP a shot.
PirateISP is a brand new ISP founded by the Piracy Party in Sweden. They deliver 1000/1000 Mbit Internet with 16 Static IP addresses for small 525 SEK (53 Euro or 69 USD), it’s around 125 SEK more then we pay now, so it’s not like it’s expensive. One more plus is that we get Static IP’s which we have been trying to get for close to 1½ years but never succeeded in. The 16 IP’s we get are total overkill if you ask me, 4-5 would have been fine as all other ISP’s provide that in this network, but PirateISP are the only one that handle out Static IP’s which we are really thrilled about.

We’ve had some unforeseen power-cuts lately which has resulted in me buying a UPS for the network and for the servers.
The UPS should have enough power to supply the network and the servers for around 15-20 minutes. This should be more then enough since we’ve never had a power-cut that lasts longer than 5 minutes.

Furthermore we’ve changed the monitoring system from Cacti to Zabbix – You might be asking me why, it’s quite simple to be honest. Cacti has lately been suffering from various SQL injection vulnerabilities and the fixes they have supplied have not been working correctly.

Rannveig and I have just spent a brilliant week together in Spain more precise Platja d’Aro. This is the first time in all the years we’ve been together that we have been on vacation just the two of us. My Mom and Ole has been taking care of Alexander and without this sounding wrong it has been freaking awesome not having to worry about anyone else then the two of us.
As I’ve understood on my Mom we have not been missed, they have had so much fun while we were not there. Well we are not jealous since we have had an awesome time ourselves =).