Debian Partners for 2017

Information about the current partners program and list of current partners can be viewed at the main partners program page.

2017 Partners Program conditions

For more information on the Debian Partners Program for the year 2017, visit the 2017 Partners Program.

2017 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.


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.



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.


Telegraaf Media ICT BV is supporting the Debian community by donating hardware, rackspace and bandwidth for the Debian server hosting alioth, arch and svn.

Telegraaf Media ICT BV is running its internet infrastructure (appx. 200 Intel based servers) mainly based on Debian GNU/Linux servers; the sysadmins are highly motivated Debian users and some of them also Debian maintainers.

Telegraaf Media Group runs some of the most popular Dutch websites (http://www.telegraaf.nl, http://www.speurders.nl and http://www.dft.nl) as well as the two biggest newspapers in The Netherlands.




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.


DebConf17 Sponsors

The DebConf17 Sponsors are listed in the DebConf17 website.