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About us & the far-reaching galaxy.
“It started years ago as a dream of no longer needing to pay crazy prices for Cloud Services from these Big Cloud and SaaS companies. Which naturally led to a metric ton of experimentation – and with it, our love for the web sprouted. We have no idea where we’re going – and, honestly, we like that. In all fairness, sometimes we have a relatively tenuous grasp on where we’ve already been. In any case, we know when something feels right.”
The OLab Team
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We’re cosmic
Well, what can I say – we’re all cosmic.
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Sky isn’t the limit
Don’t let anyone fool you – the sky is not the limit. We think bigger than that. From idea to execution, there are no compromises.
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Beyond the stars
We are constantly contributing to the open source web in multiple industries. One of our main goals is to make the web a better place for future generations, far beyond it’s impact on us today.
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We need pasta
We love to eat food – and pasta is no exception. Please send us some pasta.
Some of what we do.
Home-brewed Services
From our custom web applications to our powerful in-house APIs, we take an idea and turn it into a reality – with a workflow that actually makes sense in the real world.
Auto-Scaling Containers
We can run services that automatically scale in containers at the bat of an eye. We also have auto-provisioning cubes, redundancy + co-location – all that good stuff.
Cloud Storage
Yeah, we’ve got that. Although we don’t do much with cold storage. We could certainly whip something up if necessary. But we’re not really a cold storage shop – just keeping it real.
High Performance
We manage resources exceptionally well – with relatively low overhead. Keeping costs low for everyone is important but balancing that with performance and security is our bread and butter.
Enterprise Security
Enterprise grade appliances provide top level protection and edge software controls in place to block DDoS, XSS, SQL Injections, Session Hi-jacking, Geo-IP, bots. As well as YARA filtering, Tor blocking, custom dynamic rule sets and more.
Redundant Clusters
Our cutting-edge, co-located, replication services give you the confidence and assurance you need to know that data is safe, secure, and always accessible. We take redundancy seriously.
Monitoring & Healing
24/7 monitoring maintain awareness of service status in a configurable amount of time as low as 5 seconds between polling. Custom self-healing mitigations ensure the fastest response possible. With custom flexible alerting, we’re always in the know.
Industry Compliance
GDPR, PCI DSS, HIPPA, SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001, HITRUST, and FIPS 140-2 are all compliance sets that we do not conform to currently. But we’re really cool people. It’ll be fine. We know that the trophy is misleading but there aren’t many icons.
Transparency.
We believe in complete transparency – internally and externally. Without this, relationships are destined to suffer. You might notice we didn’t really make any money last year. That’s an expected outcome when you’re not charging for anything.
As of right now, we are doing this to help others, with nothing expected in return (except pasta – we love pasta).
Things change fast though. Stay tuned in case there are any changes that are… big! One thing that will always be true is our unwavering dedication to helping others with their web needs wherever and whenever possible.
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Where we’re headed.
Well, that’s a bit tough to say. Passionate people may strongly believe to move forward when something feels right – which we agree with. However, there are many moving pieces that accompany taking that path. If we were to go down that road anytime soon, we’d want to be positioned better than we are now – anything else would just be irresponsible. With that said, please see a few of the things below that we know won’t change no matter what the future holds:
If there were ever a need for a better web, it is now! There are still so many businesses, writers, hobbyists, researchers, etc. without a valuable web presence! Or some existing but with boring, out-of-date websites that don’t command attention or share who they really are and what they have to offer!
Did we even touch on any of the security issues that many old websites usually carry around? We’ll put a pin in that for another discussion – for now, just know that this is a huge problem as well.
(We are still looking for pasta donations, folks. We do this for people and pasta. We need more pasta.)
Improving
We are constantly improving our skills and abilities. From many logical code-base improvements, to in-depth experimentation with new technologies. Our tiny team packs quite a big punch.
Realistic
We always reach for the stars but it’s important to be realistic at every turn. We carefully consider all angles before making any rock solid decisions. Everyone has a voice and something to bring to the table.
What we’ve done already.
Here’s just some of what we’ve cooked up so far!
Most of it is the real stuff, but sometimes… you just gotta have fun.
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Blog
We try to post as much as possible. But there aren’t many contributing to our blog section. Anytime there is something we hear of that is worth bringing up, you’ll find it here – granted we have enough time!
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