Well that was a fast year! We’ve been working pretty hard on other ‘day-job’ projects this year, which means side projects like the good ol’ Serpent tend to fall by the wayside as other priorities come and go. But I always like to end the year with an update to remind you all we’re still kicking.

We’ve been hosting a fair amount of infrastructure for friends of ours this year, ranging from Matrix, Minecraft and Nginx - our preferred web server of choice. As a result, we’ve learnt a lot about how the big three (Amazon, Microsoft and Google) charge for resources. It also helped us understand the competition in cloud computing, who are offering some of the best deals right now to entice customers in; Check out IBM, Oracle and DigitalOcen for better deals in 2025.

The world of Cybersecurity has taken up pretty much most of the year, attending shows and helping organisations navigate the complicated world of SASE\SSE\SWG\DLP\RBI\SaaS\IaaS\FWaaS\CASB and probably many other technologies I already had forgotton by May!

There’s also some interesting things happening in the Linux world. Check out The GNU Shepherd if you’re fed up of systemd taking over the entire machine.

We’re also dropping the X sharing link because we’re done with that dump!

So I wish you all happy holidays, and a great new year. There’s plenty of look forward to in 2025!