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Spirula volunteers for helping the Egyptian government

As Spirula Systems had a role in supporting some political opposition websites before the Egyptian revolution, we didn't hesitate to support the new Egyptian government when it was needed. Spirula Systems helped by securing and managing the server of the latest Egyptian referendum website. This was done because we believed that Egypt has reached the point where people and government should cooperate together to create a better future for our beloved country.

Egypt, Spirula, and the Electronic War

Spread your wings

Since Spirula Systems started, it wasn't very clear to others what we have been doing. Now we can disclose a part of our activities that kept behind closed doors for a long period.

Spirula Systems partner with ArabCrunch

It's our pleasure to announce our partnership with ArabCrunch, the well-known arabic technical blog.

Since 2008, ArabCrunch has been giving the Arab region a source for the latest technological news of the region and has also been lending a hand to geek startups and professionals. What ArabCrunch has been doing, it has been doing with dedication and with an effort that has been deeply set in the company's desire to allow the Arab region reach its utmost potential as an incubator and provider of technology, rather than being just a user of technologies.

What ArabCrunch provides is a service, and as any other service that reaches its customers, it is important to all the involved parties that the service is always available to those who need it, and that the service is always in the best shape possible. Recent events particularly have highlighted this, especially since ArabCrunch was under a DDoS attack earlier this year.

Spirula Systems defends DDoS attack on ArabCrunch

For 4 days, ArabCrunch was under attack. The attack was a normal http DDoS attack but the amount was high so their VPS couldn't handle and the hosting company got their VPS down. Till they contacted us.

Spirula sponsors EGLUG's Cairo installfest for 2010

As we embrace free software principles, and from our commitment to support FOSS communities, Spirula Systems was one of the three sponsors for EGLUG's installfest that took place Saturday, third of April 2010. That was the sixth installfest happens in Cairo since eglug was formed.

With Spirula, Explore New Shores

After years of dreaming and months of planning, Spirula is finally paving the path for businesses that are seeking to dip their feet in the waters of Free/Open Source Software. In a market that is dominated by software and infrastructures that are costly and occasionally inefficient, we are committed to spreading the values of FOSS, which desire to ensure that the best quality of IT infrastructure is available to everyone. FOSS has the dual advantage of being inexpensive to implement and of being in a continuous state of development, as such we believe that going the FOSS way is in the best interests of any growing business. And that's what we are here for: to give you the chance to explore the possibilities of what FOSS has to offer your company.

About Spirula

Spirula Systems is a startup that is located in Alexandria, Egypt. Following the professional open source business model, and embracing free software values, Spirula aims to support the small to medium business to switch its IT infrastructure - or part of it - to the use of open source software. This support varies, starting from switching the systems and being the second level support, to designing complicated structures spread across multiple geographical locations and operating such a system so as to keep it secure and to help maintaining its high performance.

Supporting the local free/open source software communities is a commitment that we have taken upon ourselves, as without such communities all the software we use would not exist.

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