A couple of days ago, we introduced a new high-end server into our North American service cluster called Rigel. It is named after the blue supergiant star in the constellation of Orion. This new server is based on the AMD 4th generation EPYC Genoa platform, making it one of the fastest systems in our fleet as of today.

By adding this new server we're increasing our North American capacity by 33% as we've seen traffic there increase significantly over the past 12 months and we like to have a large buffer so we can take some servers offline for maintenance should it be needed.

This new server also further increases our provider diversity as we're utilising a new datacenter which is operated by a different provider to our other North American server nodes.

In addition to Rigel, we think around April we'll be refreshing several of the servers we picked up two years ago which will help raise overall performance, lower latency and give us more room to grow.

That's the update for today, we should have another non-infrastructure-related update regarding the service directly next week so stay tuned for that.

Thanks for reading and have a wonderful weekend.