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title: URGENT: Infrastructure update Announcement
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pub_date: 2022-04-01
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We are updating our infrastructure - what actions do you need to take
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## APRIL's FOOLS DAY

None of the news below is true - this was just part of our 2022
April's fools day contribution.

## Urgent release: ungleich infrastructure update

To the attention to every ungleich customer: today we are updating our
infrastructure to the latest technologies. All changes will be applied
at 23:42 CEST today.

What does that mean to you? The following sections answer this in detail.

## Network upgrades: Turning IPv4 off

As of today all IPv4 traffic will be disabled. IPv4 has become
too expensive and it is not worth keeping it online.

The migration will be as follows: every IPv4 address like A.B.C.D will be
translated to an IPv6 address like 2a0a:e5c0:b00::A.B.C.D.

As a bonus, every customer will get their own "cafe" IPv6 network.

Additionally every server will be connected also via
[SCION](https://scion-architecture.net/), the new Internet.

## Network upgrade: Removal of old connections: no more 2G/3G/4G

You may be aware that slow Internet connections are draining server
resources: long lasting connections without much data transfer is a
burden for every server. For that reason, we will disable access to
our data center from any 2G/3G/4G mobile connection.

You are required to use 5G, 6G, 7G, Fiber or 56k modems to access Data Center
Light. The latter was included as a fallback, in case you don't have
support for a modern Internet connection.


## Storage migration

Our storage is so far based on Ceph, a distributed storage. To follow
modern standards, we are migrating all our data to the blockchain.

To avoid vendor logins and possible shortcomes of a particular
blockchain, we are introducting the "ungleich blockchain", which
stores data on **all** available blockhains.

If you are worried about privacy implications of all data being
public, don't worry: we are encrypting all data using an
[Enigma machine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enigma_machine).

Optionally, on request, we can also encrypt your data as NFTs.

In regards to performance, we expect a huge performance increase, as
all data will be saved everywhere.

## Computing power

As you might have read recently, we are investigating heating houses
with the server heat. This project is now in productive state and we
require much more computing power.

For that reason, at the same time today, our whole server
infrastructure will be replaced with [quantum
computers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_quantum_computing_and_communication).

As qubits, the equivalent of bits on quantum computers, operate on
probabilities, all calculations for our customers are not guaranteed
anymore, but instead they will be executed by a certain probability.

The exact probability is derived from your society behaviour
points. If you are [in the good
place](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good_Place) you get an
additional uncertainty factor of 3.14.

## Removal of Kubernetes

We recently introduced [kubernetes](https://kubernetes.io/) in our
infrastructure. After only 2 years of R&D we will have to shutdown all
Kubernetes based clusters. The main reason is that the actual
complexity of Kubernetes systems is **not high enough**. Plainly
speaking, our engineers are bored. For that reason:

We will replace Kubernetes with a [home
made](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_repeat_yourself) solution
that consists solely of a manually managed cluster of Windows
Servers. Microsoft is a direct partner in this and provides us with
a new Windows version: **Microsoft Windows Quantum ME 3.11**.
We expect great stability from this release with a minimum complexity
factor of 1000x added.

## Maintenance and Customer support

We have always been very community orientated. Today we wanted to take
the next big step and we turn over the customer support and system
maintenance to the community. What does that mean specifically?

Anyone interested in maintaining our infrastructure can get full root
access on all systems.

As everyone now has full root access, the customer support is also
shifted to a decentralised, [bittorrent
based](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent) support community.

If you have any questions to the recent changes, please connect the
decentrally organised support community. Unfortunately, due do the
decentralisation, we cannot offer a single contact reference.

However the Web3 advocate of your choice will certainly be able to
provide you answers.