About us
We got tired of paying for someone else's abstraction
Ferrous was built by people who kept renting virtual machines to run workloads that hated virtualisation.
Origin
Steal time is a tax
Every workload we cared about — databases, storage nodes, video encoders, training jobs — behaved worse under a hypervisor and cost more because of egress pricing. So we bought hardware, put it in buildings we could visit, and priced bandwidth at what it costs us, which is very close to nothing.
- Unmetered ports since day one
- Hourly billing, because a benchmark should not cost a month
- We publish real stock levels, including zero
One rack in Frankfurt
Forty machines and a spreadsheet.
Own address space
The network starts peering directly.
Five-minute provisioning
Netboot pipeline replaces manual installs.
GPU capacity
First InfiniBand pod, 64 nodes.
Six facilities
3.2 Tbit/s of edge capacity.
How we work
Boring on purpose
We would rather run software that is three years old and understood than something new that pages us at 04:00.
Own the path
We buy transit from multiple carriers and peer directly wherever it is possible, so a single bad hop is never a single point of failure.
Write it down
Every incident gets a public write-up. Every design decision gets an RFC. Institutional memory beats heroics.
Some of the people behind it
A quarter of the company has been here since the first rack.
We are hiring
Remote-first across EU time zones, with a small office network for people who prefer one.