You might have noticed something different on this visit to the Memset website. We've got a fresh new look with the same great secure, innovative and trusted services and support

The OpenStack Summit, now in its 16th iteration, took place last week in Vancouver, BC. OpenStack operators and developers from around the globe descended on the beautiful Canadian city made famous for the 2010 Winter Olympics to discuss all things  Cloud Open Infrastructure, and I was fortunate enough to attend for my fifth summit (Tokyo, Austin, Barcelona and Boston previously).

Early this year (2018) we were invited by our friends over at Hosting Advice to be involved in their series of Featured Experts from 2017. We were honoured to be asked and enjoyed taking part.

In fact, it got us reminiscing about our highlights of 2017 from Memset and around the Cloud Hosting world. So here are our some of our favourite moments from 2017:

Our Cloud VPS provides customers with high-speed SSD storage to ensure that demanding applications get the disk performance they require. In feedback from customers, it was highlighted that some users require more disk space without the additional bundled RAM or CPU.

Providing bigger disk space on a Cloud VPS server has, until now, been inefficient for cloud storage providers, resulting in a reduced service and higher prices for the end user – something we at Memset were not willing to compromise on.

Last month Memset sponsored the after party of the Security BSides event in Athens, which brings experts and researchers together in order to discuss the latest advances and threats in Internet Security. Three members of the Memset team attended the conference and on their return, we caught up with them.

In recent years the hosting industry has changed significantly, we’ve noticed that what we once called Miniserver VM is now known as Cloud VPS. Therefore we are changing some of our service titles to fall inline with industry standards.

Memset are delighted to be the after party sponsor for this year's Security BSides Athens, supporting one of the largest and most cutting edge security conferences in Europe.

With more and more websites gaining SSL protection, consumers are becoming increasingly wary of sites which do not support HTTPS. Indeed, major web browsers are no longer marking pages with 'mixed content' as secure (ars technica UK, 2015), with an eventual goal of marking all non-https sites with a warning (cnet, 2015).

Despite having policies on Open Standards and Open Source in place for nearly five years, over 90% of Government IaaS procurement is still based on proprietary software with non-standard interfaces from large US companies, Ken Smith from Memset explores.

Memset has become a Corporate Sponsor of Security BSides Athens, part of the world’s leading community-driven framework of security events, helping researchers, professionals and InfoSec enthusiasts to come together and exchange knowledge.