Storage Boxes, Virtual Servers, Dedicated Servers, Managed Servers based on extremely performant libre-friendly server hardware and libre GNU/Linux distros. We also offer colocation to cover all your needs.
Workstations and servers that respect your freedom and privacy. Based on libre boot firmware and libre GNU/Linux distros. Premium support, such as extended guarantees and advanced RMA, are available.
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20170303: Three devices from Vikings now FSF-certified to respect your freedom. Available now.
20170203: Meet us at FOSDEM in Brussels on 4th & 5th of February 2017.
Currently, you can contact Vikings by email, IRC (on Freenode), telephone and by snail-mail:
| Issues regarding | Mail address | GPG Key Download | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| General Contact | hello at vikings dot net | Download | General contact or just to say "hello". |
| Abuse Contact | abuse at vikings dot net | Download | If you've witnessed network abuse (spamming or hacking) issues originating from our network, please contact our Abuse Team. Include logs of the offending activity if possible. |
All outgoing emails from Vikings are signed by our GPG keys.
The email that you received from these accounts (mentioned above) have been signed among each other.
To authenticate our emails, you will need PGP software. We use the GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG or GPG) to implement PGP.
You can download our GPG keys from the links above or use the following command example in a GNU/Linux CLI to download the key ID 0x7BD63126 (hello at vikings dot net) from a keyserver:
gpg --recv-keys 0x7BD63126
Vikings uses greylisting on its mail servers for certain mail address in order to reduce the amount of spam received.
Greylisting works by sending a temporary SMTP error the first time an email is received from an unknown sender. Any legitimate mail servers that receive this error will resend the email successfully. The bulk mailers used by spammers do not usually try to resend email that is returned and so the spam is blocked on the first and only attempt at delivery.
Legitimate emails to Vikings should not be affected by greylisting. However, if you have any problem sending email, please contact abuse at vikings dot net.
You can contact us on IRC (Freenode) in #vikings with your favorite IRC client or use this link to connect to Freenode IRC with your webbrowser.
If you're not familiar with IRC, please keep in mind that while we're usually online 24/7, we're humans and may not see your question for some time. Thus patience may be required. Please use another contact method if you're not able to wait for an answer.
Our offices and data center are located in Aachen, Germany. Office hours by appointment.
+49 241 60 95 60 95