Dedicated server, cloud hosting and colocation services provider, Hivelocity, announced this week that a deal has been inked with Comcast to add Comcast fiber to the Hivelocity Network. Comcast has joined Level 3, Time Warner Telecom, Global Crossing, GTT and Cogent to become the 6th bandwidth carrier on Hivelocity’s network. …
Hivelocity has recently purchased 3 new 20 ton Liebert CRAC (computer room air conditioning) units to add to its data center floor. The Hivelocity data center is N+1 with its air conditioning already and maintains the facility at 72 degrees or less at all times with the existing 160 tons …
Virtualization has become a cheap and easy way to recreate a number of features on one computer, such as operating systems and hardware platforms, that would normally require a separate machine. Let’s take a look at how some popular virtualization solutions stack up to each other. Proxmox VE The Proxmox …
By Dan Protich Let’s first explain how internet routing works and why latency can occur on a network. To most simply explain routing I always use an analogy that most people can understand. Each transit provider is a highway for data to travel upon. The more transit providers you have, …
Earlier today Hivelocity Hosting announced it was already taking pre-orders for their new Intel E5-2600 Romley Xeon server line. These new processors are Intel’s latest server processor built on the Sandy Bridge platform and are the newest edition to the higher end Xeon family of chips. With hardware suppliers like …
By: Tommy Craddock At Hivelocity we sell a few hundred Linux dedicated servers or Virtual Private Servers (VPS) every month. As a hosting provider and data center with thousands of dedicated and virtual servers our techs are on site 24/7 assisting our customers as issues arise. Many of the dedicated …
Rack Solutions’ president, Dan Mantz, recently visited our data center to see how our Phase 2 expansion was coming along. He was thoroughly impressed with what he saw and after flying back to Texas had his PR department work up the following press release. The original presser can be found …
Hivelocity has recently launched several new server configurations keeping up with Intel’s latest processor releases. In the last month Hivelocity has added Ivy Bridge E3, Sandy Bridge E5 and Westmere E7 systems to their offerings and to their orders with Dell and SuperMicro. Ivy Bridge is the code name for …
By: Steve Eschweiler Over the years, as our operation has grown, we have toured most of the data centers in the greater Tampa Bay area. After all, we started out 11 years ago as a shared hosting company. Only when our customer’s needs for resources grew did we start offering …
By. Steve Eschweiler The last year was a busy one for us here at Hivelocity. Not only were we busy with the day to day of running a full service data center, we chose to fill our plate with a 12,000 sq ft data center expansion as well. For …
Dedicated server, VPS and cloud hosting provider Hivelocity Hosting (https://www.hivelocity.net) has recently upgraded their SourceForge mirror server to accommodate the always-expanding download catalog offered at Sourceforge.com. With roughly 1000 users uploading and downloading projects at all times the requirements for a capable system are considerable. A complete overhaul of the …
