Engineering

Back when Hostinger was still quite a small company, only Nagios, Cacti and Ganglia existed at that time in the market as open source monitoring tools. They’re less known now, but Nagios and Cacti are still in a development cycle, even today. Even though no automation tools existed. Bash + Perl did the job. If you want to scale your team and yourself, automation should never be ignored. No automation – more human manual work involved. We started out with around…

Before we opened our data centres in the United Kingdom and the United States, we had some problems with our infrastructure. We had no automation, no version control for router configurations, a single uplink per-data centre, stretched VLANs between racks, plus static routes with ECMP, which causes a gap in the event of an anycast node failure. As we outlined in a previous blogpost, we started automating our network, and we rolled out our first automated processes in Singapore and…