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Attention: Dirty Cow Exploit Affects Linux Servers- Information and Instruction

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 http://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 ...

New Vulnerability Discovered Affecting RedHat, CentOS, Ubuntu, CloudLinux and Debian OS

This is a courtesy notice for any self-managed customers running the following OS; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 & 7 CentOS 6 & 7 CloudLinux 6 & 7 Debian Squeeze, Wheezy, Jessie Ubuntu 12.04 & 14.04 If you have Hivelocity's Fully Managed Services on your server we have already applied the necessary patch and emailed you with ...

Hivelocity Breaking Ground On New World Class Data Center

Hivelocity, a cloud hosting, bare-metal server and infrastructure services provider to customers in over 130 countries, announced today plans to open a new 30,000 square foot world class data center in Tampa FL. This will be Hivelocity’s second data center in Tampa, increasing its footprint in the area to over ...

Five Ways To Protect Your Company From a Data Breach

How much is your company’s reputation worth? The loss of your company’s reputation is likely the most serious risk to its existence. One incident can bleed clients and cause potential clients to scratch your company off their list entirely. Trust -- if it can be regained at all -- can ...

Hivelocity Now Includes Free Unmetered Inbound Bandwidth

Bare Metal Server, Infrastructure Services and Cloud Hosting provider, Hivelocity, announced today that all dedicated servers now include unmetered inbound bandwidth. Going forward, the only bandwidth that is measured for billing and overage purposes is outbound traffic.Hivelocity’s network consists of a Noction IRP blend of Level 3, Time Warner Telecom, ...

10GB of FREE Cloud Storage Now Available to Every Customer!

For the last month we have been offering 10GB of FREE cloud storage to a limited amount of customers. Each day we would invite a few racks of servers to try out the new service via an email. The day of waiting for your invitation is now over! All customers ...

Comcast Becomes the 6th Transit Provider on Hivelocity's Network

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. ...

Explanation for affected customers

At roughly 11:56am eastern time a portion of our customers experienced a 9 minute issue with the Hivelocity network. Our Network Engineers were able to resolve the issue and restore service back to normal around 12:05pm. At this time we are still investigating the issue to determine why our redundancy ...

Time Warner Telecom Maintenance Window- Informational Only- No downtime expected

This week we received a notification from one of our transit providers, Time Warner Telecom, regarding maintenance they will be performing in the Tampa area on August 16th. Hivelocity maintains 5 transit providers so this maintenance is not expected to cause any outages to our network. Level3, Global Crossing, GTT ...

Why Sys Admins Love cPanel Servers

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. ...