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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 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 …

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Future Proof Dedicated Servers Versus Amazon Cloud

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 …

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How Does a Content Delivery Network (CDN) Work?

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 …

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Why Switching to AWS May Cost You A Fortune

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 …

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In the Datacenter

SATA RAID 1 vs SSD + SATA, Which Makes More Sense?

Is RAID 1 an Outdated Way of Thinking?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 …

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Adding Efficiency Hoods to CRAC Units in the Data Center

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 …

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Why System 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. …

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Hivelocity Introduces Fresh New Logo

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 …

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