Category: "News"

Turnkey Linux 2009.10 Available

October 28th, 2009
Following the recent announcement from the Turnkey Linux team detailing the availability of new Ubuntu-based appliances, GigaTux have prepared these appliances for use on their Virtual Private Server packages. Automatic installs and reinstalls of any… more »

URL Shortening Service Launched

October 7th, 2009
GigaTux is proud to launch its own URL shortening service that can be used by all users for any purpose. The idea behind these is that you convert a long URL, e.g. https://www.gigatux.com/distro.php?distro=turnkey into a short version like… more »

15TB contributed to tor by GigaTux

September 17th, 2009
GigaTux has been running a tor server on one of its reliable VPS products for quite some time now, using unused bandwidth on the GigaTux servers to support anonymised Internet traffic. We are happy to announce that we have now contributed 15 terabytes… more »

GigaTux server move complete - 154 days uptime

September 15th, 2009
All servers hosted by GigaTux have been successfully moved to a new colocation facility at Spectrum House in Maidenhead. The servers were shut down gracefully and moved within the 2 hour windows as previously detailed. This ends the stretch of high… more »

Metanews

August 27th, 2009
GigaTux has now revamped its news system, with news now being produced as a blog. This means that users can subscribe to RSS/Atom feeds, as can be seen on the left panel of the news page. This allows us to keep our users, and the community at large,… more »