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Shortcode: 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 …

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 …

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 …

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Is RAID 1 an Outdated Way of Thinking?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 …

Many potential customers come to us each day asking if they would be better off colocating or simply leasing a server from us. I am hoping to shed some light on this age old question to help those of you who are pondering this very scenario. As we tell each …

Keeping a growing data center nice and cool is always one of the goals and challenges for a hosting company. As it stands Hivelocity is n+1 on computer room air conditioning and our data center is maintained at 72 degrees fahrenheit. While the temperature in the data center is always …

Shortcode: Hivelocity announced this week the launch of its new cloud hosting and virtualization specialty site www.SparkNode.com. SparkNode offers cloud hosting plans including Virtual Private Servers (VPS) and Cloud Virtual Machines (VMs) either of which can be signed up and deployed within seconds. SparkNode emphasizes simplicity and ease of use …

Shortcode: Hivelocity was founded in 2001 and we have maintained our headquarters in Tampa Bay for over a decade. In the early years as our company grew we toured each data center in the area looking for the right fit to facilitate our swelling needs. You see when we founded …

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 created. Once the …

Shortcode: 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 …