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How FastPath and CacheCade work to improve RAID speeds and leverage SSD

When you’re looking for the fastest SSD raid speeds, you need an Intel S3500 drive, FastPath, CacheCade, and Hivelocity Hosting. A fast drive can only do so much for a dedicated server. Combining that drive with performance enhancing software in a Hivelocity data center allows you to get the most

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

Hivelocity Completes SSAE-16, HIPAA and PCI Audits

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

Hivelocity Adds NTT Communications Transit

  Dedicated server, cloud and infrastructure services company, Hivelocity, announced today they have further enhanced their network with the addition of NTT Communications transit. Hivelocity provides hosting services to customers around the globe making network diversity and performance paramount to its service offerings. NTT Communications joins Level 3, Time Warner

How to Determine What Your Colocation Needs Really Are

Making the leap to outsource your data center can be both a liberating and harrowing move. On one hand, the transition offloads much of the overhead of IT infrastructure management to the colocation facility, allowing the firm’s staff to focus on other core competencies; on the other hand, relinquishing control

Looking for Server Colocation Solutions?

Although many think of this as simply “server operation outsourcing,” there are a number of things that customers have to figure out when they are selecting colocation services; things that they are responsible for even though the servers will be housed off-site. Hardware and Operational Questions Obviously, those who are

To Colocate or Lease – The Age Old Question

Many potential customers come to us each day asking if they would be better off colocating or simply leasing a server from us. I am hoping to shed some light on this age old question to help those of you who are pondering this very scenario. As we tell each

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

Hivelocity Launches Cloud Specialty Site SparkNode.com

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

Why Hivelocity is the Best Colocation Option in Tampa

Hivelocity was founded in 2001 and we have maintained our headquarters in Tampa Bay for over a decade. In the early years as our company grew we toured each data center in the area looking for the right fit to facilitate our swelling needs. You see when we founded the