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Our Solutions
Managed Hosting
We manage the servers for hundreds of customers; from SME to 100K+ municipalities. Carefree online on our own platform.
Consultancy
We think in terms of solutions, advise our customers where necessary, and are happy to discuss with your system administrators to implement the perfect solution for you.
Cloud
Cobytes is your remote system administrator; migration and management of your cloud platform as if we were sitting next to you.
Online Workspaces
Leave the complete management of your digital office to Cobytes. We ensure that all your employees can work like a breeze.
Various organizations leave the handling of e-mail to Cobytes. We not only provide the best spam filter, but also ensure that your mail is delivered correctly and according to all standards.
Security
We invest in the security of our platform. In cooperation with our partners, we continuously ensure optimal security.
DevOps
Our DevOps engineers develop the Cobytes platform and are also ready to support you in automating your digital environment and work processes.
Hosting
Hosting is our passion. The hosting options we offer do not fit in this box. On the other pages we try to give you an idea of our possibilities.
Our Hosting Specialties
TYPO3-Hosting
Our love for TYPO3 has existed for more than 10 years!
We have realized hundreds of installations from small to high-performance cluster.
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Magento-Hosting
A good Magento webshop is always online and super fast.
Wondering how we realize this for our customers?
WordPress-Hosting
WordPress is the most used CMS but it does not exactly excel in performance.
Curious about our solutions to make it lightning-fast?
Cluster Hosting
Site or shop outgrown its jacket? Looking for more speed or uptime?
Find out whether a cluster is a good option for your application!
We use sustainable products and have in-depth knowledge.
OpenStack began in 2010 as a joint project of Rackspace Hosting and NASA. As of 2012, it is managed by the OpenStack Foundation, a non-profit corporate entity established in September 2012 to promote OpenStack software and its community. More than 500 companies have joined the project.
The first CentOS release in May 2004, numbered as CentOS version 2, was forked from RHEL version 2.1AS. CentOS version 7.0 officially supports only the x86-64 architecture, while versions older than 7.0-1406 also support IA-32 with Physical Address Extension (PAE). As of December 2015, AltArch releases of CentOS 7 are available for the IA-32 architecture, Power ISA, and for the ARMv7hl and AArch64 variants of the ARM architecture. Building of CentOS 8 started at May 2019. CentOS 8 was released on 24 September 2019.
Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.
Popular Linux distributions include Debian, Fedora, and Ubuntu. Commercial distributions include Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. Desktop Linux distributions include a windowing system such as X11 or Wayland, and a desktop environment such as GNOME or KDE Plasma. Distributions intended for servers may omit graphics altogether, or include a solution stack such as LAMP. Because Linux is freely redistributable, anyone may create a distribution for any purpose.
Linux was originally developed for personal computers based on the Intel x86 architecture, but has since been ported to more platforms than any other operating system. Linux is the leading operating system on servers and other big iron systems such as mainframe computers, and the only OS used on TOP500 supercomputers (since November 2017, having gradually eliminated all competitors). It is used by around 2.3 percent of desktop computers. The Chromebook, which runs the Linux kernel-based Chrome OS, dominates the US K–12 education market and represents nearly 20 percent of sub-$300 notebook sales in the US.
Linux also runs on embedded systems, i.e. devices whose operating system is typically built into the firmware and is highly tailored to the system. This includes routers, automation controls, televisions, digital video recorders, video game consoles, and smartwatches. Many smartphones and tablet computers run Android and other Linux derivatives. Because of the dominance of Android on smartphones, Linux has the largest installed base of all general-purpose operating systems.
Linux is one of the most prominent examples of free and open-source software collaboration. The source code may be used, modified and distributed—commercially or non-commercially—by anyone under the terms of its respective licenses, such as the GNU General Public License.
GNU is an operating system and an extensive collection of computer software. GNU is composed wholly of free software, most of which is licensed under the GNU Project's own General Public License (GPL).
GNU is a recursive acronym for "GNU's Not Unix!", chosen because GNU's design is Unix-like, but differs from Unix by being free software and containing no Unix code.
The GNU project includes an operating system kernel, GNU Hurd, which was the original focus of the Free Software Foundation (FSF). However, given the Hurd kernel's status as not yet production-ready, non-GNU kernels, most popularly the Linux kernel, can also be used with GNU software. The combination of GNU and Linux has become ubiquitous to the point that the duo is often referred to as just "Linux" in short, or, less frequently, GNU/Linux (see the GNU/Linux naming controversy).
Richard Stallman, the founder of the project, views GNU as a "technical means to a social end". Relatedly, Lawrence Lessig states in his introduction to the second edition of Stallman's book Free Software, Free Society that in it Stallman has written about "the social aspects of software and how Free Software can create community and social justice".
It is best known for its issue tracking application, Jira, and its team collaboration and wiki product, Confluence. Atlassian serves over 135,000 customers.
It is compatible with several versions of CloudLinux, Red Hat, Fedora Core, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, FreeBSD, Ubuntu and Debian.
MariaDB intended to maintain high compatibility with MySQL, ensuring a drop-in replacement capability with library binary parity and exact matching with MySQL APIs and commands. However, new features diverge more. It includes new storage engines like Aria, ColumnStore, and MyRocks.
Its lead developer/CTO is Michael "Monty" Widenius, one of the founders of MySQL AB and the founder of Monty Program AB. On 16 January 2008, MySQL AB announced that it had agreed to be acquired by Sun Microsystems for approximately $1 billion. The acquisition completed on 26 February 2008. Sun was then bought the following year by Oracle Corporation. MariaDB is named after Monty's younger daughter, Maria. (MySQL is named after his other daughter, My.)
HAProxy is used by a number of high-profile websites including GoDaddy, GitHub, Bitbucket, Stack Overflow, Reddit, Speedtest.net, Tumblr, Twitter and Tuenti and is used in the OpsWorks product from Amazon Web Services.
nginx is free and open-source software, released under the terms of the 2-clause BSD license. A large fraction of web servers use NGINX, often as a load balancer.
In March 2019, the nginx company was acquired by F5 Networks for $670 million.
As of February 2020, Netcraft estimated nginx served 36.48 percent of all active websites ranked, ranking it first, above Apache at 24.51 percent, while according to W3Techs, Apache is ranked first at 40.1 percent and nginx 2nd at 31.8 percent.
The vast majority of Apache HTTP Server instances run on a Linux distribution, but current versions also run on Microsoft Windows and a wide variety of Unix-like systems. Past versions also ran on OpenVMS, NetWare, OS/2 and other operating systems, including ports to mainframes.
Originally based on the NCSA HTTPd server, development of Apache began in early 1995 after work on the NCSA code stalled. Apache played a key role in the initial growth of the World Wide Web, quickly overtaking NCSA HTTPd as the dominant HTTP server, and has remained most popular since April 1996. In 2009, it became the first web server software to serve more than 100 million websites. As of February 2020, it was estimated to serve 24.51% of all active websites, ranked 2nd after Nginx at 36.48%, while according W3Techs, Apache is ranked first at 40.4% and Nginx 2nd at 31.8%.
PHP code is usually processed on a web server by a PHP interpreter implemented as a module, a daemon or as a Common Gateway Interface (CGI) executable. On a web server, the result of the interpreted and executed PHP code – which may be any type of data, such as generated HTML or binary image data – would form the whole or part of a HTTP response. Various web template systems, web content management systems, and web frameworks exist which can be employed to orchestrate or facilitate the generation of that response. Additionally, PHP can be used for many programming tasks outside of the web context, such as standalone graphical applications and robotic drone control. Arbitrary PHP code can also be interpreted and executed via command line interface (CLI).
The standard PHP interpreter, powered by the Zend Engine, is free software released under the PHP License. PHP has been widely ported and can be deployed on most web servers on almost every operating system and platform, free of charge.
The PHP language evolved without a written formal specification or standard until 2014, with the original implementation acting as the de facto standard which other implementations aimed to follow. Since 2014, work has gone on to create a formal PHP specification.
As of April 2020, over half of sites on the web using PHP are still on discontinued/"EOLed" version 5.6 or older; and with version 7.0 and 7.1 over 68%, that are neither officially supported by The PHP Development Team, while security support is provided by third parties, such as Debian (up to June 2020 for PHP 5). Because of the popularity of PHP that means at least 53% of the websites in the world run on implementations of languages no longer supported by their designers. In addition, PHP version 7.2, the most popular supported PHP version, will stop getting security updates on November 30, 2020.
- Simple checks can verify the availability and responsiveness of standard services such as SMTP or HTTP without installing any software on the monitored host.
- A Zabbix agent can also be installed on UNIX and Windows hosts to monitor statistics such as CPU load, network utilization, disk space, etc.
- As an alternative to installing an agent on hosts, Zabbix includes support for monitoring via SNMP, TCP and ICMP checks, as well as over IPMI, JMX, SSH, Telnet and using custom parameters. Zabbix supports a variety of near-real-time notification mechanisms, including XMPP.
Released under the terms of GNU General Public License version 2, Zabbix is free software.
The service has both free and premium tiers. The software that hosts the containers is called Docker Engine. It was first started in 2013 and is developed by Docker, Inc.
What our customers say about us
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Ben Hendriks, Product owner - Advisor Online Accessibility of the municipality of Ede Ben Hendriks, Product owner - Advisor Online Accessibility of the municipality of Ede
Working with Cobytes is like having an extra employee; they think along and take initiative with regard to questions about security and new techniques in the field of hosting. Very good response time, no-nonsense approach, proactive, good and in-depth knowledge, Driven and a large dose of a sense of responsibility are keywords that they amply meet.
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Piet Woudt, CISO of the municipality of Houten
Next to the fast approach of Cobytes with which they effectively solve bottlenecks and incidents, we see Cobytes mainly as a partner who thinks along to our security structurally to a higher level. Cobytes is a reliable partner to us whom we gladly trust with our online services.
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Paul Homan, Managing director of idot!webengineers Paul Homan, Managing director of idot!webengineers
We have been relying on the expertise of Cobytes for our hosting products for many years. Also thanks to the enormous involvement and fast response time of Cobytes we can offer our customers a high level of service, with promises we always keep.
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Jan Faber of Beef&Steak
Beef&Steak has been a customer of Cobytes for years. The great thing about Cobytes is that you can make real arrangements with them. Other providers refer you to a page with their standard product range, but with Cobytes they will take care of it in such a way that it works optimally. They came to us with a solution for improving the speed of the website and handling peak traffic. We love that, because we prefer to sell meat rather than server problems.
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Jeroen likes to advise and think along with you about the best solution for your cloud or IT issues.
