By: Tommy Craddock At Hivelocity we sell a few hundred Linux dedicated servers or Virtual Private Servers (VPS) every month. As a hosting provider and data center with thousands of dedicated and virtual servers our techs are on site 24/7 assisting our customers as issues arise. Many of the dedicated …
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 …
Vote For Us Now Under the Large Company Tab at – https://www.bizjournals.com/tampabay/socialmadness (Voting has ended!) Here at Hivelocity we try to make dedicated servers and hosting fun. This is no easy task considering our work space if filled with inanimate square black objects. But we do try to make it …
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: Steve Eschweiler Over the last few weeks we have been gradually introducing new updates to portions of our web site. Today’s update is a much needed refresh of our Data Center Tour page. Over the last year we have added thousands of new servers to our Tampa Data Center. …
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 …
This week we received a notification from one of our transit providers, Time Warner Telecom, regarding maintenance they will be performing in the Tampa area on August 16th. Hivelocity maintains 5 transit providers so this maintenance is not expected to cause any outages to our network. Level3, Global Crossing, GTT …