Happy New Year, IPng

content/_index.md

@@ -17,13 +17,14 @@ to be connected to the industry both physically, in terms of software defined ne
 and software companies, and socially, to the Swiss and European networking community.
 
 IPng Networks GmbH provides networking consultancy, hosting, colocation, internet connectivity
-options primarily tailored for the Zurich metropolitan area.
+options primarily tailored for the Zurich metropolitan area. We are experts in self-hosting, and
+on principle only use fully open sourced components to build and run our business.
 
 Rather than dazzle you with pictures of clouds, grandiose projections of our "global IP backbone",
 and other claims that small businesses make to appear larger than they are, we're happy to show what
 we know, what we own, and how we can help you accomplish your goals if you want to work with us.
 
-### Keywords: SDN, WDM, IP, Network Design and Consultancy, Hosting, and Colocation.
+### Keywords: VPP/FD.io, Network Design and Consultancy, (Self-)Hosting, and Colocation.
 
 We are proud of our network and the services we operate, because they allow us to provide
 predictable and reliable performance. We maintain and grow the network judiciously and with the

content/about.md

@@ -47,8 +47,8 @@ started his career as a network engineer in the Netherlands, where he worked
 for Intouch, Freeler, and BIT. He helped raise awareness for IPv6, for example
 by launching it at AMS-IX back in 2001. He also operated
 [[SixXS](https://www.sixxs.net/)], a global IPv6 tunnel broker, from 2001 through
-to its sunset in 2017. Since 2006, Pim works as a Distinguished SRE at Google
+to its sunset in 2017. Since 2006, Pim works as a Distinguished Software Engineer at Google
 in Zurich, Switzerland. In his free time, he goes [[Geocaching](https://geocaching.com)],
-contributes to [[open source](https://github.com/pimvanpelt)] projects, and flies
+contributes to [[open source](https://git.ipng.ch/ipng/)] projects, and occasionally
-model helicopters.
+flies model helicopters.
 

content/services.md

@@ -56,6 +56,14 @@ can help broker a deal that is tailored to your needs.
 You can read more about how we built our own colocation from scratch in this [[informative post](
 {{< ref "2022-02-24-colo" >}})].
 
+### Self-Hosting
+
+For IPng it's important to take back a little bit of responsibility for our online presence, away
+from centrally hosted services and to privately operated ones. We are experts at self-hosting, with
+services such as [[Mastodon](https://ublog.tech)], [[Pixelfed](https://pix.ublog.tech/)],
+[[Loops](https://flx.ublog.tech/)], [[PeerTube](https://video.ipng.ch/)], [[Mail]({{< ref
+2024-05-17-smtp >}})] and myriad others.
+
 ## Project Design / Execution
 
 {{< image width="15em" float="right" src="/assets/pdu19.png" alt="19 inch PDU" >}}

hugo.yaml

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-  nBlogLatest: 14 # number of blog post om the home page
+  nBlogLatest: 20 # number of blog post om the home page
   Paginate: 30
   blogLatestHeading: "Latest Dabblings"
   footer: "Copyright 2021- IPng Networks GmbH, all rights reserved"
@@ -20,10 +20,8 @@ params:
   social:
     email: "info+www@ipng.ch"
     mastodon: "@IPngNetworks"
-    twitter: "IPngNetworks"
     linkedin: "pimvanpelt"
     github: "pimvanpelt"
-    instagram: "IPngNetworks"
     rss: true
 
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