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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:
+We are updating our infrastructure - what actions do you need to take
+---
+body:
+
+## 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 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.
+
+
+## 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.
+
+
+## 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.