We Took Over an IRC Client. Yes, in 2026.
Textual, the native Mac IRC client, is now maintained by Blendbyte. Why a team of twenty-year IRC users took over a…
We build it. We run it.
Managed hosting on infrastructure we run ourselves, EU by default, from a founding team with more than 20 years each in the business. We build and maintain the software that runs on it, too.
99.97%
- EU by default
- On our own servers in Frankfurt and Amsterdam, contracted through our Berlin GmbH with a signed DPA.
- Monitored around the clock
- 24/7 monitoring and daily backups are included, not extras, with failover where your setup needs it.
- A direct line to engineers
- No ticket queue. On every plan, on-call engineers handle outages at any hour; questions and requests are answered in your plan's support hours.
Who runs on our hosting
A cross-section of the many companies running on our hosting, from online stores with sharp sales peaks to research projects that scale to thousands of hosts.
100,000
- E-commerce brands with big sales peaks Built and hosted by us
- Research computing in healthcare and biotech Cloud scaling run by us
- A SaaS platform for teams Built and hosted by us
- Esports and gaming Hosted and scaled by us
- Film agencies and creative studios Managed web, email and video
Beyond hosting
Each service is work we do every day on our own systems first. These systems are public, so you can check them yourself.
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Custom software
Web applications and internal tools built to fit your workflow, from online stores with configurators and factory links to a SaaS platform we also host. Every project ships with tests, docs and a deployment pipeline.
- Tindra (opens in a new tab) Error tracking and performance monitoring. We build it, and run the managed version in the EU.
- Stringhive (opens in a new tab) Translation management for software teams, with SDKs for Laravel and Node.js.
- Textual (opens in a new tab) A Mac chat app in development since 2010. We took over maintaining it in 2026, in the open on GitHub.
- Laravel and Filament packages (opens in a new tab) Six open source packages we maintain, running in production apps worldwide.
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Servers & security
Firewalls, intrusion detection and encrypted backups, under a signed DPA. We monitor your systems and patch vulnerabilities proactively.
- nginx modules repository (opens in a new tab) Ready-made add-ons for the nginx web server, published within 24 hours of every release. We built it when the previous source shut down.
- CoyoteCert (opens in a new tab) Our open source tool that issues and renews the HTTPS certificates across all of our own infrastructure.
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Consulting
Migrations, architecture decisions, and scaling plans. We assess your current setup, identify risks, and map out clear next steps.
We also fund projects the software we run depends on: Vox Pupuli, the PHP Foundation.
Monthly retainers
From 1,000 EUR a month for 10 hours of development, server work and support, on top of your hosting. Predictable costs, rolling monthly terms.
Notes from production
Practical write-ups on hosting, infrastructure, and software from the engineers who run production systems every day.
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No sales team, no ticket queue.
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