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 …
Hivelocity’s Director of Operations, Steve Eschweiler, was recently interviewed by Bryan Kim at Hosting Review Box. A transcript of this interview is below. Whether you are a small scale business owner or a big time business magnate, the importance of managing a business is well emphasized. Thus, the inception of …
OpenStack is an IaaS platform that enables highly scalable and highly flexible cloud solutions. Similar to VMware or HyperV, OpenStack allows users to create virtual machines within bare-metal servers. Numerous bare-metal servers can then be connected to each other enabling the ability to seamlessly create virtualized servers at scale when …
After several months of evaluation and with several hundred companies considered, Hivelocity is proud to have been named by the Business Journal as the #6 best place to work in Tampa Bay among BIG companies in 2016. The delta between #1 and #6 was roughly 2% points so we were …
We are happy to announce the completion of another round of annual audits and certification testing. Hivelocity has once again attained SSAE-16 SOC 1 Type 2, SOC 2 Type 2, and ISAE-3402 data center certifications. Additionally, we continue to maintain HIPAA and PCI compliance. Each of these compliance audits and …
Hivelocity, a bare-metal server, cloud hosting, and colocation provider to customers in over 130 countries, announced today that all new dedicated servers will include an SSD (solid state drive) with their base configuration. Hivelocity’s servers are fully customizable and customers that prefer a traditional spinning disk still have this option …
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 …
Hivelocity Customers, Due to the recent discovery of a vulnerability within OpenSSL encryption known as HeartBleed, action is required to ensure your Linux server’s data is secure. Windows servers are not affected. Below are 5 sets of instructions for fully-managed customers, self-managed customers, self-managed cPanel customers, self-managed Cloud Linux 6 …
As someone who has been in a management position within the web hosting industry for close to 10 years, I have had the opportunity to see many resumes of potential employees. Unfortunately, it seems a lot of the applicants miss the mark on what a hosting company is looking for …
This week Hivelocity, provider of Dedicated Server, VPS and Cloud hosting solutions, announced the addition of Softaculous to its list of partners and available software offered with its services. Hivelocity is offering Softaculous free of charge for the first month to anyone who signs up by the end of September. …
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 …