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

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

Shortcode: 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

Shortcode: 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

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

Shortcode: 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

Dedicated server, cloud hosting and colocation services provider, Hivelocity, announced this week that a deal has been inked with Comcast to add Comcast fiber to the Hivelocity Network. Comcast has joined Level 3, Time Warner Telecom, Global Crossing, GTT and Cogent to become the 6th bandwidth carrier on Hivelocity’s network.

Shortcode: 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

Shortcode: 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

Shortcode: 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