InfrastructureVGN
What we learned deploying our first network location
Notes from bringing the Vantaa site online: racking, addressing, connectivity, and the parts that took longer than expected.
Status / Active
2026Index / Research
Research
Practical research through real systems.
Vainamo's research is primarily practical. We learn by building, operating, measuring, testing, and documenting.
Research may begin with a technical question, a new technology, an infrastructure problem, or an idea for a potential business. Some projects remain experiments. Others may develop into products, services, or independent ventures.
Below are our current areas of investigation. We document findings as our systems run, and working notes will be published here as they are completed.
Index
Current areas of investigation
NetworkingVGN
Why geographic diversity matters in distributed infrastructure
How distance, routing, and independent failure domains change the behaviour of a small distributed network.
Status / Active
2026NetworkingSystems
Building our own DNS infrastructure
Running authoritative and resolving DNS ourselves, and what that reveals about caching, delegation, and operational risk.
Status / In progress
2026ReliabilityVGN
Designing infrastructure for failure
Planning for component, provider, and location failure before it happens, and testing whether the plan holds.
Status / Planned
2026InfrastructureResearch
What running a small network teaches you about large infrastructure
Operating at our own scale gives a practical perspective on problems that large infrastructure providers describe abstractly.
Status / Planned
2026SystemsAutomation
Automating infrastructure deployment
Making deployment reproducible so a location can be rebuilt from configuration rather than memory.
Status / In progress
2026Philosophy
Research by building
We believe some questions are best answered by building the system ourselves.
Instead of trying to predict every outcome in advance, we create practical experiments, operate them, collect experience, and use those findings to decide what to explore next.