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Brightbox
Company blog · brightbox.com/blogsystems
Brightbox is the company blog at brightbox.com, writing about systems. Since 2011, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 56 times, most often “The brightbox cloud comes out of beta”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (16) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
UK cloud hosting company blog. HN readers link its technical posts on Rubynetes (generating Kubernetes YAML with Ruby), MySQL locks and transactions, IPv6-only servers, Jitsi deployment and load testing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 16 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Brightbox provides simple and flexible UK owned and operated cloud hosting designed for 100% uptime. Get started now with £50 free credit.
Most-linked posts?
- The brightbox cloud comes out of beta6 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2011-10-03
- How to run open source video conferencing on Brightbox with Jitsi2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-03-30
- Brightbox launches IPv6 for Cloud Servers2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-01-11
- An introduction to distributed load testing with tsung2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-11-07
What Hacker News says?
Obligatory reference to Rubynetes - using Ruby and rspec to generate the YAML files that k8s loves. [0]: https://www.brightbox.com/blog/2020/02/24/rubynetes-getting-... [1]: https://www.brightbox.com/blog/2020/02/12/rubynetes-kubernet... [2]: https://www.brightbox.com/blog/2020/02/17/using-openapi-to-v...
Comment linking /blog/2020/02/17/using-openapi-to-validate-kubernetes-configs/
on “Why are we templating YAML? (2019)”Submitted Building a Riak Cluster On Brightbox cloud as a story · 48 points
HN discussionhttp://brightbox.com/ is UK based and privately owned. I don't think they've said anything about plans to expand into the US or otherwise.
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on “CISPA Passes in the House - Full Roll Call”Submitted Simple solution to host multiple HTTPS sites on the same cloud server as a story · 44 points
HN discussionReading this article made it much clearer to me why both locks and transactions are needed: https://www.brightbox.com/blog/2013/10/31/on-mysql-locks/
Comment linking /blog/2013/10/31/on-mysql-locks/
on “Practical Guide to SQL Transaction Isolation”Submitted Rubynetes: Using OpenAPI to validate Kubernetes configs as a story · 40 points
HN discussionYes Kubernetes YAMLs are a PITA. But you can just wrap them in a scripting language like Ruby that makes it easy to create a DSL. [0]: https://www.brightbox.com/blog/2020/02/12/rubynetes-kubernet... Use a language rather than a tool if you need the flexibility.
Comment linking /blog/2020/02/12/rubynetes-kubernetes-config-the-easy-way/
on “Acorn: A simple application deployment framework for Kubernetes”Submitted Solving the Dining Philosophers Problem with Systemd as a story · 33 points
HN discussionA few more alternatives: - http://gandi.net - http://brightbox.com/ - AWS S3/Cloudfront (for static sites) - http://wordpress.com
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on “GoDaddy Buys Media Temple”Submitted Brightbox vs Amazon EC2: Phoronix Ubuntu 12.04 Benchmarks as a story · 32 points
HN discussionThank you for your work and persistence Colin! I love using FreeBSD for my servers because of the consistency and great minds behind it. I love it so much that I have written a few posts how to setup a FreeBSD server [1]. Currently there are some other options for hosting your "virtual" FreeBSD server. Some good ones are RootBSD [2] (US), Brightbox [3] (UK) and TransIP [4] (NL). Quality wise that are equally good. I…
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on “FreeBSD now available on all EC2 instance types”Submitted Brightbox launches IPv6 for Cloud Servers as a story · 30 points
HN discussionHighly recommend - https://www.brightbox.com/ for European / UK hosting
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on “European.cloud: A Curated Directory of EU-Based Cloud Providers”Submitted CoreOS images now on Brightbox Cloud. Build a CoreOS cluster in 5 minutes. as a story · 27 points
HN discussionWe designed Brightbox Cloud with the scarcity of public IPv4 addresses in mind since day one. Running out of addresses shouldn't be a surprise to anyone! http://brightbox.com/blog/2012/01/11/ipv6-servers/ We're not as cheap as gandi though, heh :)
Comment linking /blog/2012/01/11/ipv6-servers/
on “An IPv6-only VPS that costs less”Submitted Brightbox launches new lower-cost cloud server tier as a story · 27 points
HN discussionBrightbox are a UK company with a pretty decent cloud offering: http://brightbox.com
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on “US free to grab EU data on American clouds”Submitted Brightbox announces availability of Windows servers on its cloud infrastructure as a story · 18 points
HN discussionUnlike Elastic IPs, Brightbox Cloud IPs can be mapped directly to load balancers, so you can avoid the SPoF that way (load balancers are highly-available, across zones): http://brightbox.com/#load_balancers But we also have some other upcoming features for Cloud IPs that address this in another way :)
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on “Simple solution to host multiple HTTPS sites on the same cloud server”Submitted Orbit: Our new Geo-redundant Object Store as a story · 15 points
HN discussionhttp://brightbox.com/ is quite good. Based in England as par as I know..
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on “Ask HN: European Linode / DigitalOcean alternatives”Submitted Distributed IPv6-ready Firewall service from Brightbox Cloud as a story · 14 points
HN discussionhttps://www.brightbox.com Simple straightforward IaaS
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on “Best Alternative to DigitalOcean?”Submitted Preventing MySQL deadlocks in your Rails application as a story · 10 points
HN discussionhey nice work. I did the same thing but for Brightbox: https://github.com/brightbox/deploy-jitsi realised I've not licensed it properly though! will sort that out tomorrow. blogged about it here: https://www.brightbox.com/blog/2020/03/30/how-to-install-jit... took me a while to sort out the fqdn config change, did you get that working?
Comment linking /blog/2020/03/30/how-to-install-jitsi-on-brightbox/
on “Show HN: Terraform recipe for running Jitsi Meet on DigitalOcean”Submitted Ubuntu Precise daily builds available on Brightbox Cloud as a story · 10 points
HN discussionhttp://brightbox.com/
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on “Microsoft must release email data held on Dublin server to US court”Submitted The brightbox cloud comes out of beta as a story · 9 points
HN discussionTheir design appears to be quite deliberately taken from UK IaaS company Brightbox: http://brightbox.com/ We've asked about it on twitter but no answers from them just yet. I presume an outsourced design someone pinched without them knowing (or quite the coincidence). (fulldisc: I'm a brightboxer).
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on “The Node Firm”Submitted Brightbox updates Cloud Load Balancers for real-time applications as a story · 8 points
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