If you know much about computers, or even if you don’t, chances are you’ve heard the term CPU. The CPU, which stands for Central Processing Unit, is an essential part of every system from your home laptop to the servers hosting your company’s website. But what is a CPU, and …
It’s undeniable. IaC tools like Terraform and Ansible are revolutionizing the way we build and interact with large-scale infrastructure. But why? What is Terraform, and what about it makes this tool so essential? As you may already be aware, it’s become increasingly common for companies to utilize not one cloud …
You’ve slain the Ender Dragon, conquered the Nether, and built your own pixelated replica of King’s Landing. Now what? Minecraft may be a game of endless possibilities, but once you’ve seen everything the base game has to offer, you may be asking yourself “how do I recapture that magic I …
If you’re a business owner, then you know how important your servers are to your business. Whether storing product information for an eCommerce site, sales histories for a brick-and-mortar retailer, or customer records for the clients of a business-to-business service provider, the data stored on private servers is vital to …
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Modern cryptocurrency has come a long way since it was first theorized around the turn of the century. Since then, digital currencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Litecoin have seen massive value fluctuations, scandals, and hacks. What may be more surprising about these events is that virtual money always seems to …
Dedicated servers empower businesses with the ability to scale computing resources at a rapid rate while minimizing overall hosting costs. Businesses that use dedicated servers can take advantage of the latest computing technologies and virtualization without the astronomical upfront costs associated with opening a world-class data center. Dedicated servers are …
Today’s Data Center With the ever changing needs of business infrastructure, many companies trust in data centers to play a critical role in meeting their IT requirements. Data centers are more than just a secure facility with space, power, and network. They are becoming a valuable extension to many businesses, …
By: Steve Eschweiler Over the years, as our operation has grown, we have toured most of the data centers in the greater Tampa Bay area. After all, we started out 11 years ago as a shared hosting company. Only when our customer’s needs for resources grew did we start offering …
By Dan Protich Let’s first explain how internet routing works and why latency can occur on a network. To most simply explain routing I always use an analogy that most people can understand. Each transit provider is a highway for data to travel upon. The more transit providers you have, …
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 …
