Digital Roots, a cutting edge social media management application, recently selected Hivelocity to host their ever-growing private cloud infrastructure. The Digital Roots platform helps companies like General Motors, Ford Motor Company and The Consumer Electronics Show optimize their social media presence with the help of proprietary Natural Language Processing and …
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, …
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 …
How much is your company’s reputation worth? The loss of your company’s reputation is likely the most serious risk to its existence. One incident can bleed clients and cause potential clients to scratch your company off their list entirely. Trust — if it can be regained at all — can …
Is RAID 1 an Outdated Way of Thinking? As the price of flash storage has come down over the years we thought it would be worth wondering out loud if there was a better alternative to the old RAID 1 setup. I want to predicate this article by stating no …
Unless you missed the internet in the last few weeks you are now familiar with the infamous ShipYourEnemiesGlitter.com site. I for one first heard of it on the Today Show two weeks ago pondering my daily commute, then on Reddit while pretending to work, then at the water cooler while …
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 …
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 …
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 …
As you may know Thailand has been ravaged with flooding throughout September and October. What you may not know, is much of the worlds hard drives are manufactured in Thailand. The monsoons have barely let up and as it stands many of the biggest names in hard drive production are …
Earlier this week we had some contractors out to lay a cement slab in preparation for the extra diesel fuel we are adding. I arrived to the office today to find a huge crane parked behind our facility. An hour later our 3500 gallon tank arrived and we were ready …