We run our own hardware and our own network.
A Swedish host in Malmö, part of Hypefox AB. That is why we can leave port 25 open, hand you the rDNS, and answer where your data sits without asking anyone.
100%
Renewable energy
2023
Operating since
Data jurisdiction
Privacy framework
Why Melonslab
We built what we wished existed
In 2023, we founded Melonslab with a clear principle: cloud infrastructure should be deterministic. No magic. No black boxes. Just clean architecture, predictable performance, and full transparency at every layer.
We started with strong opinions about how hosting should work, and everything we've built since has been shaped by them.
Eliminating uncertainty from cloud infrastructure
We believe you should have full control over every layer of your infrastructure: no hidden configurations, no vendor lock-in, no bill surprises.
And we believe serious hosting can be sustainable. Our entire platform runs on 100% verifiable renewable electricity, not as a marketing claim but as an operating principle.
Your data stays in Sweden. No exceptions.
All infrastructure is in Malmö, Sweden. Your data is governed exclusively by EU and Swedish privacy law: no foreign jurisdictions, no external access, no exceptions.
For businesses that need a clear answer about where their data lives, the answer is always: Sweden.
We buy from people we can phone
We use local and EU suppliers wherever we can. It is rarely the cheapest option, but when a disk or a switch dies the replacement comes from someone we can phone, not a support portal three timezones away.
The same goes for software. We build on a billing platform whose source we can read, and wrote every module on top of it ourselves: provisioning, domains, the client area.
Melon + slab, in one word
Melonslab is exactly what it reads as: melon plus slab, joined into a single word. The slab is the technical half: a slab of compute, the way you'd picture a physical server slab or a virtual machine you carve out and put to work. Together they capture the brand: approachable on the surface, serious underneath. A fresh face on enterprise-grade Swedish infrastructure.
The loop above is one photograph and six lights
It came from a few seconds of handheld footage of a blade enclosure in our rack. Holding a camera still in a data centre is close to impossible: your hands shake, the racks and the machines in them vibrate, and the cooling runs under the floor you are standing on. Nothing in the clip loops, because nothing in the frame ever stops moving. Getting one usable second out of it took a good deal more measuring than filming.
- 01
Find the second where the camera parks
We measured the camera’s travel frame by frame across the whole clip, looking for the calmest window. There is exactly one stretch where it nearly stops, drifting eleven pixels over two seconds. The rest was unusable.
- 02
Freeze everything that is not a light
Every frame is registered onto the sharpest one, chosen by ranking all 48 candidates for edge detail. What you are looking at is that single photograph: 99.2% of the image is byte identical in all 24 frames.
- 03
Find the lights by behaviour, not colour
Our first pass matched on green and quietly missed every white and amber light. The second measures how each pixel’s brightness moves over time, so a light is anything that actually switches. The fan modules and status LEDs do not, so they stay still.
- 04
Interpolate each light, never move it
Each light has its own dark state and lit state, and every frame interpolates between the two. Brightness can change; position cannot. The lit strip under the switch is scaled multiplicatively instead, which holds its edge to two pixels where the simpler method moved it nineteen.
- 05
Small enough to be the first thing that paints
194 KB at full resolution, no video player, and the loop point changes less than an average frame does. If your system asks for reduced motion, you get the still photograph instead.
That is more attention than a background animation deserves. It is roughly the attention we give everything else.
What we stand for
Data sovereignty
EU law. Swedish servers. No foreign jurisdiction over your data, under any circumstances.
Sustainability
100% verifiable renewable electricity, not a carbon offset but genuinely clean power.
Engineering quality
Every layer is inspectable, every decision explainable. No black boxes, no magic here.
Local partnerships
EU and Swedish suppliers by default, because accountability means knowing who you work with.
Company culture
How we work, and what we care about.
Craft
“Good enough” is where we start, not where we stop. Anything that merely works stays in review until it is boring to run at 3am.
Inclusivity
Everyone is welcome and everyone is heard. We build a team, and a platform, that respects people of every background.
Freedom
Creative freedom to build, freedom of expression, and freedom through privacy. Your work, your voice and your data stay yours.
Transparency
We say what we do and do what we say: clear pricing, straight answers, and inspectable infrastructure. What you see is what you get.
A brand of Hypefox AB, Malmö, Sweden
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