Businesses need new ways to connect with customers due to the spiraling costs of good customer service and the power of social media to make or break a company’s reputation. You may realize that there are a lot of people who are using social networks but you may be surprised …
Virtualization has become a cheap and easy way to recreate a number of features on one computer, such as operating systems and hardware platforms, that would normally require a separate machine. Let’s take a look at how some popular virtualization solutions stack up to each other. Proxmox VE The Proxmox …
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: Steve Eschweiler Over the last few months we have had no less than 100 guests tour our Tampa data center. The data center tours have been so frequent I find myself going to bed reciting our power point presentation. So for the benefit of those who are not able …
By Fritz Stauffacher 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 …
By: Matthew LeVarge Driven by consumer demand and the rigors of the server environment, Intel is now shipping its DC S3500 Solid State Drives. The engineers at Intel have designed this new SSD product line for the usage patterns and applications found in the datacenter. While Hivelocity has long-utilized 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. …
By: Steve Eschweiler We have a new trend forming at our Tampa data center these days. Our colocation customers are leasing a lot of dedicated servers from us. Our dedicated server customers are shipping us a lot of servers they want collocated. Both our colocation and dedicated server customers are …
By: Iain Kidd At some point, every forum owner starts to notice the same things. First, pages load a little bit slower than they used to. Occasionally it will take so long that you end up refreshing the page. Then members start to notice it as well, and start wondering …