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Articles about networking, colocation and Odoo — in plain language, written by our engineers. No marketing stories, just answers.
Building your own cloud: the architecture behind PlanetNode
How we built a complete open source cloud platform on Proxmox for our sister company PlanetNode: our own template pipeline, our own metadata service and provisioning driven straight from the customer portal.
95th percentile billing explained
How 95th percentile billing works: a data point every five minutes, the highest 5% discarded. Why short peaks cost you nothing and how to pick your commit.
Odoo as the engine behind your webshop: the FiberNXT case
How the FiberNXT B.V. webshop (Medusa) integrates with Odoo: webhooks, real-time stock, automatic sales orders and payments that reconcile themselves — and where to draw the line between shop and ERP.
Data centre migration: the runbook
A data centre migration is not a move of equipment but of dependencies. How you work out the boot order and what has to be in place before the first server leaves the building.
Self-hosted, Odoo.sh or Odoo Online: which do you choose?
The three ways of running Odoo compared honestly: Odoo Online, Odoo.sh and self-hosted. Costs, customisation, upgrades and data residency.
What is colocation?
Colocation explained: your own servers in a professional data centre. What you get, how it differs from cloud and an in-house server room, and when it fits.
DDoS attacks: how to protect your infrastructure
How DDoS attacks work — volumetric, protocol and application layer — and the defence that goes with each: from BCP38 and blackholing to FlowSpec and scrubbing (NaWas).
EVPN-VXLAN explained: Layer 2 without the classic misery
How EVPN-VXLAN works: VXLAN as the dataplane (L2 over a routed network), EVPN as the BGP control plane. And why this has replaced classic L2-over-WAN with spanning tree.
OSS VAT in Odoo: EU sales without foreign registrations
Do you sell to consumers in other EU countries? Here is how to set up the One Stop Shop (Union scheme) in Odoo: fiscal positions, rates and the report for your return.
What does colocation cost per rack?
How a colocation price is built up: space, power and network as three separate items, plus one-off costs. With a worked example and starting prices.
BGP communities: tagging routes and steering traffic
What BGP communities are and what you can do with them: informational tags, traffic engineering with prepends, selective announcements and blackholing. Including the difference between standard, extended and large communities.
Power in the data centre: A/B feeds and what you actually use
Two power supplies does not mean twice the power. How A and B feeds work, why your connected load and your consumption are two different things, and what you are billed for.
Odoo 19 and the end of XML-RPC: migrating to JSON-2
Odoo 19 deprecates XML-RPC and JSON-RPC; the replacement is the JSON-2 API. What does that mean for your integrations — and how do you migrate in time?
What is a wavelength (DWDM)?
Wavelengths explained with a simple analogy: one optical fibre, dozens of colours of light, and one colour entirely for you. On DWDM and when a wave fits.
Regex in reconciliation models
Regex in Odoo reconciliation models: Match Regex and From label. Examples and a testing tip. In plain language.
BGP transit or Managed Internet Access?
The difference between internet over BGP/IP transit with your own AS and Managed Internet Access (MIA). When do you pick which — and what does it mean for control, redundancy and growth?
Reconciliation models for automatic bank reconciliation
Reconciliation models in Odoo explained: manual and automatic, match conditions, counterpart items, standard models. In plain language.
What is IP transit?
IP transit explained: how your network reaches the rest of the internet through a transit provider. On autonomous systems, BGP, the full table and multihoming.
The cash flow statement in Odoo Accounting
Cash flow in Odoo explained: opening balance, operating, investing, account tags. In plain language.
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