Debian Partners

What is the Partners Program?

The Partners Program was created to recognize companies and organizations that provide ongoing assistance to Debian. Because of the substantial support provided by these partners, we have been able to expand and improve Debian. We would like to officially recognize their efforts, and continue to maintain a good working relationship.

For more information on the Debian Partners Program, visit Partners Program.

Current Partners

Alphabetical List of Partners


1&1 supports us by providing several servers in their Karlsruhe high-performance datacenter.

1&1 is one of the biggest Domain Registrars and Web hosting companies worldwide, with offices in Germany, France, Great Britain, Spain and the USA. Most of the over 5 million websites and other services managed by 1&1 are running on a Debian-based environment using several thousand servers.


Ampere® provides hardware for arm64/armhf/armel build daemons and other Debian services (current Ampere hardware donations are listed in the Debian machines page).

Ampere is designing the future of hyperscale cloud and edge computing with the world’s first cloud native processor. Built for the cloud with a modern 64-bit Arm server-based architecture, Ampere gives customers the freedom to accelerate the delivery of all cloud computing applications. With industry-leading cloud performance, power efficiency and scalability, Ampere processors are tailored for the continued growth of cloud and edge computing.


Bytemark support us by providing hosting services and sponsorship for the Debian Conference.

They are a leading Internet Service Provider (ISP) in the United Kingdom and provide scalable, powerful and affordable hosting with lots of geek friendly extras as standard. Debian GNU/Linux is deployed extensively within their network, and comes recommended as the Distribution of Choice to any new customer who's not 100% sure on what to pick. Bytemark are also well known for their expert and friendly support.


conova communications GmbH has been supporting the Debian project as a hosting partner for several years. In addition, the IT specialists also host the Debian Bug Squashing Parties in Salzburg/Austria. Debian is also used on many systems used on a daily basis at conova.

conova operates one of the most modern data centers in all of Europe in Salzburg, Austria. Their services: customized solutions for housing, hosting, managed & cloud services, outsourcing as well as network and security. The company offers space for more than 10,000 servers at the highest level of supply and security on their 2,000 m² of technical area.


credativ is an independent consulting and services company and since 1999 been offering comprehensive services and technical support for the implementation and operation of open source software in business applications. Our Open Source Support Center is always available, 365 days a year, around the clock.

From the very beginning credativ has actively supported the Debian project and will continue to do so in the future. Furthermore many of our consultants are also Debian developers and actively involved in contributing to free software projects worldwide. Further information can be found at https://www.credativ.com/.


Fastly provides Debian with content delivery network (CDN) services and is helping us deliver packages to users through deb.debian.org and security.debian.org.

Fastly’s edge cloud platform provides advanced application delivery and cloud security for the world’s most popular online destinations. Fastly works with the best of the Internet, serving 14 trillion requests each month, more than 10 percent of all internet requests.


Freexian is a services company specialized in Free Software and in particular Debian GNU/Linux. Most of Freexian's employees are well-known contributors in the free software community, a choice that is integral to Freexian's business model.

Freexian is a major contributor to the Debian LTS team. Freexian assist in extending the security support of stable releases to 5 years and extends security support for old Debian releases up to 10 years for Debian releases beyond the normal support period advertised by Debian.


Gandi is Debian's DNS registrar and provides hosting and discounts to Debian developers and maintainers, supporting Debian France since 2014 and Debian Worldwide via SPI since 2022.

Gandi is a French registrar which is deeply engaged in supporting Free Open Source Software and other ethic projects since 2006.


Google sponsors parts of Salsa's continuous integration infrastructure within Google Cloud Platform.

Google is one of the largest technology companies in the world, providing a wide range of Internet-related services and products as online advertising technologies, search, cloud computing, software, and hardware.


Hetzner provides the Debian project with hosting services.

Hetzner Online is a professional web hosting provider and experienced data center operator. Since 1997 the company has provided private and business clients with high-performance hosting products as well as the necessary infrastructure for the efficient operation of websites. A combination of stable technology, attractive pricing and flexible support and services has enabled Hetzner Online to continuously strengthen its market position both nationally and internationally. The company owns several data centers in Germany and Finland.


Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) provides hardware for port development, Debian mirrors, and other Debian services (current HPE hardware donations are listed in the Debian machines page).

HPE is one of the largest computer companies in the world, providing a wide range of products and services, such as servers, storage, networking, consulting and support, software, and financial services.


LeaseWeb has been one of two partners that provide the infrastructure for the Debian OS Snapshot Archive since October 2014, providing 300 Terabytes (TB) of capacity. In 2020 they renewed their support by provisioning new dedicated servers with bigger disk drives, enough to accommodate anticipated growth for years to come.

LeaseWeb is a global Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider – offering customers on-demand, world-class hosting solutions, from dedicated servers to cloud solutions. You can learn more about LeaseWeb visiting their website.


Loongson and Lemote have provided several Loongson-based machines to Debian.

Loongson processors are a series of MIPS-compatible processors. They have been widely used in many areas, such as desktop, server, embedded application, high-performance computing etc. For more information, contact info@loongson.cn.


man-da.de GmbH is the backbone provider of the Metropolitan Area Network Darmstadt. It is supporting Debian by hosting several debian.org and debian.net servers.

man-da.de GmbH is operating MANDA, a wide area network in the South Hessen region connecting educational and research organisations to a high speed redundant network ring and providing internet access. The company is owned by TU Darmstadt and University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt and in addition to operating MANDA it is also providing IT consulting and IT services to both universities.


The Oregon State University Open Source Lab provides hosting and administration services to the Debian project.

The Open Source Lab is a focal point for open source development at Oregon State University and beyond. The OSL provides development, hosting and assorted other services to the Open Source community.


nic.at is sponsoring the anycast service RcodeZero DNS for Debian as it meets the needs to have geographically disperse locations and support DNSSEC.

ipcom is a subsidiary of nic.at, the Austrian domain registry. nic.at has been managing the .at-zone since 1998 on a highly professional and reliable level. The RcodeZero Anycast network has been developed by nic.at’s R&D department and has been successfully in use for the .at zone.


The University of British Columbia (UBC) provides Debian with infrastructure hosting since 2005.

UBC Advanced Research Computing (ARC) supports the high-performance computing, data management and infrastructure needs of UBC researchers. Working closely with national, regional, and institutional partners, UBC ARC provides consultation, expertise, and access to digital research infrastructure.


The Wellcome Sanger Institute provides infrastructure for the Debian OS Snapshot Archive since the creation of the service in April 2010. In 2018 they renewed their support by provisioning a new frontend server and increasing the amount of snapshot storage provided.

The Wellcome Sanger Institute is one of the world's leading genome centres. Through its ability to conduct research at scale, it is able to engage in bold and long-term exploratory projects that are designed to influence and empower medical science globally. Institute research findings, generated through its own research programmes and through its leading role in international consortia, are being used to develop new diagnostics and treatments for human disease.


Information about partners program and list of partners from previous years can be viewed using the following pages: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016 and 2015.