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Is RAID 1 an Outdated Way of Thinking?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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 Ventures Corporation (“Hivelocity”) has named Mr. Steven Eschweiler to the position of Director of Operations. Mr. Eschweiler previously held the position of General Manager of Hivelocity. He has been with the company since its inception in 2002. In making the announcement, Mike Architetto, President and CEO of Hivelocity said …
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 …
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 …
Dedicated Server, Cloud and IaaS provider, Hivelocity, has announced this week the completion of several audits elevating their Tampa Bay data center to new compliance standards. Hivelocity attained their SSAE-16 audit as well as both HIPAA and PCI compliance. Each of these audits inspects specific areas of operation including infrastructure …