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title: URGENT: Infrastructure update Announcement
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pub_date: 2022-04-01
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author: ungleich
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twitter_handle: ungleich
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abstract:
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We are updating our infrastructure - what actions do you need to take
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body:
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## Urgent release: ungleich infrastructure update
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To the attention to every ungleich customer: today we are updating our
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infrastructure to the latest technologies. All changes will be applied
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at 23:42 CEST today.
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What does that mean to you? The following sections answer this in detail.
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## Network upgrades: Turning IPv4 off
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As of today all IPv4 traffic will be disabled. IPv4 has become
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too expensive and it is not worth keeping it online.
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The migration will be as follows: every IPv4 address like A.B.C.D will be
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translated to an IPv6 address like 2a0a:e5c0:b00::A.B.C.D.
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As a bonus, every customer will get their own "cafe" IPv6 network.
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Additionally every server will be connected also via
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[SCION](https://scion-architecture.net/), the new Internet.
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## Network upgrade: Removal of old connections: no more 2G/3G/4G
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You may be aware that slow Internet connections are draining server
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resources: long lasting connections without much data transfer is a
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burden for every server. For that reason, we will disable access to
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our data center from any 2G/3G/4G mobile connection.
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You are required to use 5G, 6G, 7G, Fiber or 56k modems to access Data Center
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Light. The latter was included as a fallback, in case you don't have
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support for a modern Internet connection.
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## Storage migration
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Our storage is so far based on Ceph, a distributed storage. To follow
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modern standards, we are migrating ALL DATA TO THE BLOCKCHAIN.
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To avoid vendor logins and possible shortcomes of a particular
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blockchain, we are introducting the "ungleich blockchain", which
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stores data on ALL AVAILABLE blockhains.
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If you are worried about privacy implications of all data being
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public, don't worry: we are encrypting all data using an
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[Enigma machine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enigma_machine).
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Optionally, on request, we can also encrypt your data as NFTs.
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## Computing power
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As you might have read recently, we are investigating heating houses
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with the server heat. This project is now in productive state and we
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require much more computing power.
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For that reason, at the same time today, our whole server
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infrastructure will be replaced with [quantum
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computers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_quantum_computing_and_communication).
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As qubits, the equivalent of bits on quantum computers, operate on
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probabilities, all calculations for our customers are not guaranteed
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anymore, but instead they will be executed by a certain probability.
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The exact probability is derived from your society behaviour
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points. If you are [in the good
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place](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good_Place) you get an
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additional uncertainty factor of 3.14.
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## Maintenance and Customer support
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We have always been very community orientated. Today we wanted to take
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the next big step and we turn over the customer support and system
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maintenance to the community. What does that mean specifically?
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Anyone interested in maintaining our infrastructure can get full root
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access on all systems.
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As everyone now has full root access, the customer support is also
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shifted to a decentralised, [bittorrent
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based](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent) support community.
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If you have any questions to the recent changes, please connect the
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decentrally organised support community. Unfortunately, due do the
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decentralisation, we cannot offer a single contact reference.
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However the Web3 advocate of your choice will certainly be able to
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provide you answers.
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