Hivelocity, a dedicated server, cloud hosting, and infrastructure services provider to customers from over 130 countries, has announced the availability of Graphic Processing Units (GPU) with most dedicated servers and private clouds. Adding a GPU to new or existing servers is done with ease through the Hivelocity cart or ticket …
Attention, A recent exploit known as Dirty Cow has been discovered that affects Linux servers. You can find information regarding this exploit at; https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/2706661 https://thehackernews.com/2016/10/linux-kernel-exploit.html https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1384344 At this time if you have KernelCare your server should already be patched. To check that kernelcare has patched your server you can run …
First, let me explain what a “Future Proof Dedicated Server” is. The idea is to provide a bare-metal server that has so much power and bandwidth included day one, the need to scale in the future becomes moot. With that said, if down the road the need to add more …
“David just landed and will be here in about 15 minutes,” the Kingston event planner shouted. “He is coming in from China, which is about a 13-hour flight, so he might be tired.” We had just spent the last 2 days in Huntington Beach with 30 or so folks from …
With the launch of our Content Delivery Network or “CDN” product just around the corner, we want to ensure our customers fully understand what a CDN is, how it works, and what it costs when compared to traditional dedicated servers. Additionally, we want to explain what our CDN product will …
We are happy to announce the completion of another round of annual audits and certification testing. Hivelocity has once again attained SSAE-16 SOC 1 Type 2, SOC 2 Type 2, and ISAE-3402 data center certifications. Additionally, we continue to maintain HIPAA and PCI compliance. Each of these compliance audits and …
Every month, we lose a couple of customers to Amazon’s Cloud or AWS (Amazon Web Services) and every month we have another couple of customers sign up with us having just cancelled their AWS solution. Each time their reasoning for leaving AWS is the same, “way more expensive and way …
Is RAID 1 an Outdated Way of Thinking? As the price of flash storage has come down over the years we thought it would be worth wondering out loud if there was a better alternative to the old RAID 1 setup. I want to predicate this article by stating no …
By Fritz Stauffacher Eventually a growing business will find that a shared hosting plan or virtual server environment is no longer a viable option. Making the move to a dedicated server can be a daunting task. Many businesses purchase an unmanaged dedicated server, hire a developer, and have a site …
By Javier Vidueira As a systems administrator working in the hosting industry for over 10 years, I’ve had the opportunity to work on various systems running different OS’s and control panels. I typically prefer *nix based systems over WIndows for it’s security, reliability and the myriad of control panels available. …
As Hivelocity prepares to make several key announcements regarding additional data centers and new product offerings they have introduced a fresh new logo that foretells great things to come. The new logo further emphasizes Hivelocity’s “clean and easy” design philosophy first introduced with SparkNode and most recently with the Hivelocity.net …