Announcing: The newest Ubuntu distribution-release “Focal” is now available for our “Managed Servers”.
On our “managed” systems we use Ubuntu Linux long term support version (LTS), in order to provide a long support cycle and uniform systems over many years.
Newly added: version “Focal” 20.04 LTS, which will receive security patches and bug fixes from Canonical until year 2030.
Our managed services have been undergoing an extensively quality assurance process to ensure that they are ready for the new Ubuntu release.
The following new features on our managed services are available using Ubuntu 20.04 LTS:
The widely-used apache web server is now available in version 2.4.41. Support of TLS version 1.3 is included in Ubuntu Focal.
We provide Apache web server in these combinations:
Nginx has received many bug fixes and new features in version 1.18.0.
A short list of the new features:
We supply nginx in the following combinations:
All bug fixes and changes in nginx version 1.18 are documented on the official site:
https://nginx.org/en/CHANGES-1.18
Varnish plays an important role in our setups as load-balancer and cache-booster.
News from Varnish 6.0:
The overall changelog of varnish version 6 is documented here:
https://varnish-cache.org/docs/6.0/whats-new/changes-6.0.html
MySQL is supplied in version 8. A lot has changed on the codebase since version 5.7 which has been in-use on Ubuntu Bionic.
Important Information: Only php 7.4 compatible applications fully support mysql 8.
Some important innovations are:
Detailed information about all changes in MySQL 8 can be found at:
https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/mysql-nutshell.html
As an alternative to Oracle MySQL we offer MariaDB, version 10.3 or 10.4.
Several interesting features include:
Detailed information about all changes can be found on the MariaDB page:
https://mariadb.com/kb/en/changes-improvements-in-mariadb-103/
PostgreSQL is provided in version 12.4 which offers many new features including:
If you want to know more about version 12.4, the complete release notes are available here:
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/12/release-12-4.html
A small selection of new features of version 3.6.8:
The complete release notes are available directly from MongoDB:
https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/release-notes/3.6/
In the container area we offer Podman version 2.1.1 as a docker alternative.
Podman is a "daemonless" container engine to develop, administrate and run OCI Containers on your Linux system. The containers run in the context of the system user www-data and are therefore completely independent of the root user.
The syntax of podman is mostly identical to Docker, so the following bash alias can be used to run Docker commands via podman:
$ alias docker=podman
For Podman, there is a detailed article on our nine blog worth exploring:
https://www.nine.ch/en/blog/lets-have-some-fun-with-containers-on-nine-managed-servers
The In-Memory Key-Value Store Redis is available in version 5.0:
Memcached has only made a minor version change, with mostly bug fixes implemented.
In version 7.6 Elasticsearch has achieved massive performance improvements in date and number sorting. If you need a newer version of Elasticsearch, we can provide it on demand.
More information about the new features in Elasticsearch can be found here:
https://www.elastic.co/blog/elasticsearch-7-6-0-released
If you are interested in a CDN, or want to protect yourself against DDoS attacks, you can benefit from our "Managed DDoS Protection" option.
https://www.nine.ch/en/products/managed-hybrid-cloud-infrastructure/managed-ddos-protection
The new Ubuntu kernel now natively supports Wireguard.
If you want Wireguard as your new VPN tunnel solution, please contact us. We are currently in the process of developing it as a managed service, and we can incorporate your input.
For secure tunnel connections to the managed server we provide Strongswan and openvpn in the latest versions.
SFTP/FTP accounts with restricted folder access can be managed via ftpadmin2.
Are you currently using an older release and interested in an upgrade?
Please contact us for further information: