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Blunix GmbH


Debian Linux Hosting with Ansible Configuration Management
24/7/365 SLA emergency response within one hour

Introduction

About Blunix GmbH & Blunix Stack

Debian Linux Hosting

Realiable. Personal. Customizable. Automated.

Blunix GmbH maintains and develops Debian Linux Configuration Management software with Ansible.
We offer a complete and customizable hosting solution with 24/7 response times.

Blunix GmbH

Blunix GmbH is a German company comprised of a highly motivated group of Linux enthusiasts. Our main interest is to automate everything, so that both our customers and we have to invest less time. Our main objective is to create stable and reliable software. We are interested in year-long, fruitful cooperations with our customers.

Blunix Stack

Blunix Stack is a collection of Open Source configuration management code based on Ansible. It is the result of over ten years of experience in Debian Linux hosting. Its design goal is to automate all parts of server management into code. It is intended to be used by your developers to complete every day tasks.

Features

"Everything that can be automated should be automated."

Blunix Stack

List of Features

Blunix Stack is a designed to manage every aspect of your servers:
from their initial creation and installation to every aspect of management over their entire lifespan.

Code your cloud instances

Blunix Stack uses terraform to create and modify servers with cloud providers. Keep your entire server landscape as code in a git repository.

Provision new servers

After initial creation, Blunix Stack sets the servers hostname, encrypts the root disk, applies cloud provider specific tweaks and install a list of basic apt packages.

Install baseline services

All servers are configured with basic services: a firewall, a secured SSH server and a server-to-server VPN that encrypts all communication between them.

Utility services

Blunix Stack comes with pre-configured solutions for monitoring, backups, central logfiles, VPN for employees and git hosting.

Custom staging servers

Blunix Stack offers easy creation and management of virtual hosts on your staging servers as well as deployment solutions for daily development tasks.

High load production hosting

Blunix Stack offers completely customized hosting solutions for your PHP, Python, Ruby or Golang applications, from a single server to high availability clusters.

Hosting for your internal tools

Blunix Stack enables you to host all internal tools your company needs, like mediawiki, piwik, wordpress and any other tool as well as your in-house written solutions.

Hosting for your own customers

Blunix Stack is designed for web development companies requiring easy and cost effective solutions to host applications for their own customers.

Designed for your developers

Give your developers the infrastructure they need faster, but letting them apply automated processes themselves

Custom deployment solutions

Blunix Stack offers completely customizable deployment solutions, enabling your developers to easily manage application updates themselves.

Change management and history

Your entire infrastructure is managed as code inside a single git repository. Every change is reviewed by both Blunix GmbH and one of your developers.

Easy to use

Blunix Stack is designed to be used for daily tasks by your developers. It features a WebUI as well as a command line interface and comes with extensive documentation.

Philosophy

"If you work with the people you like, using the technologies that fascinate you, then work feels as good as playing a video game."

Our work philosophy

Professional. Reliable. Based on partnership.

Professional

Blunix GmbH exclusively employes Linux consultants with many years and high levels of experience. Waste no time talking to the first level support - regardless of your question being easy or complex.

Personal

Every customer is assigned a personal Linux consultant that designs, oversees and maintains your infrastructure over the entire lifetime of your contract with us. You talk to the same person 99% of the time.

Reliable

We realize how much effort it took you to build your company. Managing infrastructure worth millions of Euros is our day-to-day business. We manage your companys assets with as much enthusiasm as yourself.

In partnership

Blunix GmbH is exclusively interested in long term cooperation. We want both your and our company to profit from a relationship that benefits us both. We enjoy to watch our customers companies grow over time.

Not for the money

Blunix GmbH was not founded to make us rich (it happened by itself). We work in this field because we truly love Linux and we could not think of a more interesting and fun profession. We just enjoy automating things.

Honest error management

Computers do not make mistakes, humans do. We do not hide our own flaws at your expense. We have caused (few) unintended outages in the past and will continue to do so - and we will honestly tell you about them right away.

Unjail the client

Blunix Stack does not keep you constrained. All our software is open source so that you could run it yourself. You own your infrastructure, we do not. All of your servers are hosted with your cloud provider accounts.

Only what we do best

We do not sell Windows, Groupware or other closed source software – if we do not specialize in a technology, we will advise our clients to look somewhere else. Our solutions are among the best on the market.

Treat your employees well

Engagement, professionalism and enjoyment of work are key aspects of building awesome products. Treating all employees fairly is what guarantees our customers long term work relations with their assigned consultants.

Demonstration

"A picture says more than a thousand words. Here are 60 pictures per second with audio."

Blunix Stack has a WebUI and a CLI


The Web User Interface is build for less technically experienced employees. It enables them to perform common daily tasks themselves.

The Command Line Interface features the full functionality of Blunix Stack. It is designed for your technically skilled employees wishing to perform more complex changes to your servers by themselves.

The Documentation Website gives your developers the ability to perform everyday tasks by themselves. This saves you the time of communicating with us and speeds up the deployment of new servers, features and recurring tasks.

WebUI demo video

This video demonstrates how to make a small change to a nginx vhost using the WebUI.

CLI demo video

This video demonstrates how to install and configure nginx using the CLI.

Documentation

Explore the extensive documentation of Blunix Stack.

Customer reviews

Trust us. Also trust our imaginary anonymous customers. "We promise!"

Industry sector

Typo3 Webdesign and media marketing

  • Client: Rather not say GmbH & Co. KG
  • Since: 2016
  • Category: Mass and HA hosting
  • Technology: PHP, Typo3

"Easy to use, reliable and personal."

We have been working with Blunix GmbH for over five years. We especially like the ingenuity of custom automation solutions, which we can then apply ourselves.
- Philipp H., CEO



Industry sector

Corporate health platform

  • Client: Just can not find the words GmbH
  • Since: 2018
  • Category: High traffic HA hosting
  • Technology: Python Django

"We have always had a healthy relationship."

We have been looking for years for a hosting provider for our python django written platform. We wanted someone that just works and adapts to our special requirements, and we found that in Blunix GmbH.
- Jonathan F., CTO



Industry sector

Backend for point of sales systems, webshops

  • Client: Secretive and anonymous GmbH
  • Since: 2017
  • Category: Mass hosting
  • Technology: Custom PHP Framework

"We can add as many services as we want, and it does not get more expensive."

We are hosting a steadily growing number of backend services for our customers. Thanks to Blunix GmbH's automation systems, we can add new clients completely by ourselves, while only the cost for the cloud servers grow.
- Christoph P., CEO

Pricing

Fair. Projectable. Reliable. Negotiable.

Avoid surprises

Changes in Blunix Stack pricing are announced 12 month in advance.

Our pricing calculation consists of three components:

24/7/365 Response Time

The maximum amount of time to address a problem after you or the monitoring system have issued a critical alert. The response time applies for all your critical services, regardless of how many servers your infrastructure contains.
Most of the time we can respond (almost) immediately.

One hour: 700 € per month
Three hours: 500 € per month
Six hours: 300 € per month
Next business day: Free of charge

Number of Debian Installations

For every running installation of Debian Linux (physical servers, virtual machines, not docker) we invoice 50 € or 30 minutes of maintenance per month. If common maintenance tasks exceed 30 minutes and stay below 60 minutes, you still only pay 50 €.

Large and non-common maintenance tasks, like upgrading to the next Debian Linux distribution release, are not included in this calculation and are invoiced extra with our common fee of 100 € per hour.

Uptime guarantee

For services that require a guaranteed percentage of uptime per month, we multiply the cost for the number of highly available Debian Linux installations as follows:

99,99% (< 5 minutes per month): ×7
99,95% (<16 minutes per month): ×4.5
99,90% (<44 minutes per month): ×2

All services which require guaranteed uptime need to be setup in way that makes high availability possible - for each service there needs to be a primary server and two or more failover servers.

All prices are negotiable (in case you have a large number of servers). If you have multiple servers fulfilling the same task and the mainenance tasks are similar for their services, we commonly group and discount them.

Additional tasks which are not recurring maintenance, like adding new servers or adding new vhosts to a servers are invoiced on a per-hour basis of 100 € per hour. However using Blunix Stack, with a bit of training your developers will be able to do most of those tasks themselves. We try to write code and automate tasks that you would otherwise have to pay us for.

A word of honesty about uptime guarantees: We obviously take care to setup all parts of your infrastructure in a way that promises as little downtime as possible. Sometimes however, your customers may want you to guarantee uptime in your contracts. There is no absolutely bulletproof way to guarantee uptime in hosting.
We can not tell you in advance which problems will arise in the future or how much time it will take to fix them. All we can take care of is to start addressing the problem within a certain time frame (response times).
Hence, most of the money you pay for a high availbility guarantee goes right to our insurance company. In all honesty, we think uptime guarantees are a bit of a scam business in IT. We prefer to be honest about that with you upfront.
If you have the choice, do not invest your money into HA guarantees. There is no reliable guarantee for uptime. If you need it for contracts, we are ready to offer that for you.
All services for which uptime guarantees are required have to be setup in high availability configurations (primary, first failover, second failover server). Special measures, like automated failovers, additional monitoring, a desaster recovery plan and others are taken to decrease the likelyhood of downtime.
These measures are of course also available without the guarantee for uptime.

Getting started

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Howto get started

Starting to host with Blunix in a few easy steps.

1.

Contact us Let's discuss your vision


Please write us a short email describing your current infrastructure. After that, we will meet in a jitsi online conference to discuss all following steps in detail.

2.

Written proposal Single step overview


We will prepare you a written proposal within a few business days. It will contain all steps to be taken, as well as a detailed pricing plan. In addition, we will send you our SLA.

3.

Initial setup Blunix Hello World


We will install and configure Blunix Stack on your cloud providers servers depending on your requirements. After that, we will prepare the new servers to migrate your existing applications.

4.

Training Teaching your employees


We will teach your employees to do daily tasks themselves. We can provide additional training for technically advanced employees, which want to do more complex tasks themselves.

5.

Migration From old to new


We will plan and execute the migration of your applications one by one in cooperation with your developers while keeping the downtime to a minimum.

6.

Maintenance Updates and upgrades


Blunix GmbH will perform any maintenance tasks required on your servers. We will also continously develop new and better solutions, which will be implemented after consulting you about them.

Blog

We recommend to read our blog. Tell your friends.

The Blunix Blog

Learn more about the technologies we work with

Visit the Blog

5 March 2019

Cloud provider comparison

A comparison of cloud providers commonly used in Germany.

Read the post
4 September 2020

Open Source Monitoring

Introduction to different monitoring systems. What makes a good monitoring system?

Read the post
5 January 2021

Traeffic over Nginx

An overview of the new Open Source webserver traeffic.

Read the post

Code of Ethics

"With great power comes great responsibility."

As professional system administrators we subscribe to the code of ethics by www.lopsa.org

1. Professionalism

  • I will maintain professional conduct in the workplace and will not allow personal feelings or beliefs to cause me to treat people unfairly or unprofessionally.

2. Personal Integrity

  • I will be honest in my professional dealings and forthcoming about my competence and the impact of my mistakes. I will seek assistance from others when required.
  • I will avoid conflicts of interest and biases whenever possible. When my advice is sought, if I have a conflict of interest or bias, I will declare it if appropriate, and recuse myself if necessary.

3. Privacy

  • I will access private information on computer systems only when it is necessary in the course of my technical duties. I will maintain and protect the confidentiality of any information to which I may have access, regardless of the method by which I came into knowledge of it.

4. Laws and Policies

  • I will educate myself and others on relevant laws, regulations, and policies regarding the performance of my duties.

5. Communication

  • I will communicate with management, users, and colleagues about computer matters of mutual interest. I will strive to listen to and understand the needs of all parties.

6. System Integrity

  • I will strive to ensure the necessary integrity, reliability, and availability of the systems for which I am responsible.
  • I will design and maintain each system in a manner to support the purpose of the system to the organization.

7. Communication

  • I will continue to update and enhance my technical knowledge and other work-related skills. I will share my knowledge and experience with others.

8. Responsibility to Computing Community

  • I will cooperate with the larger computing community to maintain the integrity of network and computing resources.

9. Social Responsibility

  • As an informed professional, I will encourage the writing and adoption of relevant policies and laws consistent with these ethical principles.

10. Ethical Responsibility

  • I will strive to build and maintain a safe, healthy, and productive workplace.
  • I will do my best to make decisions consistent with the safety, privacy, and well-being of my community and the public, and to disclose promptly factors that might pose unexamined risks or dangers.
  • I will accept and offer honest criticism of technical work as appropriate and will credit properly the contributions of others.
  • I will lead by example, maintaining a high ethical standard and degree of professionalism in the performance of all my duties. I will support colleagues and co-workers in following this code of ethics.

Contact

We are looking forward to hearing from you!

Pleased to meet you

Blunix GmbH only supports end to end encrypted communication.


We think it is important to encrypt everything.
To ensure all communication with our customers stays private, we only support encrypted messengers and GPG encrypted E-mails.
We are not reachable over unencrypted E-mails and regular telephone calls.

  • Chat and call Element: @blunix:matrix.org
    Signal: +49 30 629 318 76

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according to german §6 MDStV

Blunix GmbH
Glogauer Straße 21
10999 Berlin
Germany


Turnover-tax-ID

DE304971827


German register of companies

HRB 174906 B, Amtsgericht Berlin Charlottenburg


CEO and Founder

Peter Thurner

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