Making the leap to outsource your data center can be both a liberating and harrowing move. On one hand, the transition offloads much of the overhead of IT infrastructure management to the colocation facility, allowing the firm’s staff to focus on other core competencies; on the other hand, relinquishing control …
Although many think of this as simply “server operation outsourcing,” there are a number of things that customers have to figure out when they are selecting colocation services; things that they are responsible for even though the servers will be housed off-site. Hardware and Operational Questions Obviously, those who are …
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 …
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 throughout …