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Tuesday 5 January 2016 - Firewalls for virtual machines

We've just launched a new feature, an external firewall that sits in front of your virtual server. By default the policy is to allow all, so don't worry that we are restricting your traffic or ports.

From a technical perspective, this firewall sits between your virtual machine and its default gateway, not on the VM itself so should the VM become compromised, the attacker can't relax the rules.

We've tied all this together with an intuitive interface within the control panel that lets you create, sort and commit rules in seconds.