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Notes from the team.

How we build a European cloud: engineering notes, product decisions and what ships.

Max Heyer ·

Why our object storage is 4+2, one fragment per server

enum Object Storage cuts every object into four data and two parity fragments and puts each one on a different server. What that survives, what it doesn't, and why we picked it over three copies.

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Max Heyer ·

How we handled today's PHP remote code execution CVEs

PHP shipped fixes today for two unauthenticated remote code execution bugs. Here is what we did: tell every customer running PHP on enum, take pages offline behind static fallbacks, and build patched images before official ones existed.

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Max Heyer ·

We didn't build for agents. We built a good CLI.

enum has no MCP server and no agent SDK yet. Coding agents use it anyway, because the things that make a CLI pleasant for a developer are the same things an agent needs. What we built into enumctl, and why.

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Roman Zipp ·

We built DNS. The hard part wasn't DNS.

Anyone can create a DNS zone for a domain they don't own. The four ways providers handle that gap, why three of them let a stranger block or take over your domain, and how enum verifies ownership through the parent's delegation.

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Max Heyer ·

Free DNS, forever. For a better European internet

Host DNS zones on enum at no cost, forever. Zones, records, BIND import/export, DNSSEC, and TLS certificates, on nameservers we run in the EU. For a better European internet.

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Max Heyer ·

How to ransomware-proof S3 backups with Object Lock

S3 Object Lock turns your bucket into write-once storage. Even with valid credentials, ransomware can't delete what's locked. Here's how it works on enum.

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