English
РусскийHosting provider HOSTKEY has seemingly concluded that manual server administration is a relic of the past. The company has rolled out a comprehensive update centered around automation. A Cold Storage tier has been added to its S3 object storage—the perfect repository for data that must be kept for legal reasons but will likely never be looked at again. The S3 geography has also expanded to include Russia, the Netherlands, and France.
The hardware fleet received a notable boost as well. Russia now features configurations based on the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D and servers equipped with NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell GPUs, boasting 72 GB of VRAM. For those preferring European jurisdiction, a new TIER III facility, NorthC Amsterdam 1 in the Netherlands, has come online.
Control Panel: Fewer Clicks, More Code
The personal dashboard has acquired features that infrastructure-as-code purists will appreciate. Resources can now be managed via Terraform. For those who, for whatever reason, burn through IP addresses faster than candles, the ability to freely change their IP address once every seven days has been added.
The arsenal now also includes Nmap port scanning, a revamped Native console, and a new SSH interface. Concurrently, the provider is testing a new account balance system, which is a direct step toward full-fledged hourly server billing. Paying for a whole month when a task takes three hours is quickly becoming an outdated concept.
Artificial Intelligence and the March Toward Full Autonomy
The managed applications section has been populated with ready-made solutions like n8n Community Edition, Rocket.Chat, and Element Messenger. HOSTKEY handles the installation, configuration, and updates, leaving the client with only the end product. The app marketplace has also received a batch of fresh large language models: North Mini Code 1.0, Qwen3.6-35B, and Gemma-4-26B.
The company’s near-term roadmap includes managed Kubernetes, scheduled backups, and deployment of images from GitHub and Docker. It is evident that the provider is methodically moving toward a state where the need for manual intervention in infrastructure operations is reduced to an absolute minimum.