How Does a Content Delivery Network (CDN) Work?

With the launch of our Content Delivery Network or “CDN” product just around the corner, we want to ensure our customers fully understand what a CDN is, how it works, and what it costs when compared to traditional dedicated servers. Additionally, we want to explain what our CDN product will

Hosting Review Interviews Hivelocity’s Steve Eschweiler

Hivelocity’s Director of Operations, Steve Eschweiler, was recently interviewed by Bryan Kim at Hosting Review Box. A transcript of this interview is below. Whether you are a small scale business owner or a big time business magnate, the importance of managing a business is well emphasized. Thus, the inception of

Secure network time protocol (NTP)

Follow the templates below to secure your server from being used in a DDOS attack. CISCO IOS This is a template IOS configuration that should work for most sites, but pay attention to the comments and notes. If your IOS devices synchronize with a device that is capable of MD5

Get Acquainted with the OpenStack GUI

OpenStack is an IaaS platform that enables highly scalable and highly flexible cloud solutions. Similar to VMware or HyperV, OpenStack allows users to create virtual machines within bare-metal servers. Numerous bare-metal servers can then be connected to each other enabling the ability to seamlessly create virtualized servers at scale when

Tampa Bay Caregiver Accelerator Sponsorship

We try to work with local incubators and acceleration groups to help start-ups get their online infrastructure going on a shoestring budget. We were a start-up once and we know what it is like to have dreams but no capital. Not too long ago I attended a Tampa Bay Wave

Hivelocity Named One of the Best Places to Work

After several months of evaluation and with several hundred companies considered, Hivelocity is proud to have been named by the Business Journal as the #6 best place to work in Tampa Bay among BIG companies in 2016. The delta between #1 and #6 was roughly 2% points so we were

Hivelocity Introduces New Rapid Restore Service

Hivelocity, a dedicated server, cloud hosting and IaaS company to customers in over 130 countries, today announced the introduction of a new service called Rapid Restore TM. Rapid Restore TM gives Hivelocity customers on-demand access to 5 recovery points, with a new recovery point created each day, to restore server

You Just Don’t Get This When You Colocate At Other Data Centers

Below is an email that our management team received from a colocated customer today regarding a recent visit to our data center. One of the selling points we always highlight to potential colocation customers is the level of expertise they have access to 24/7. For those of you that colocate

How to Backup Data using Backup Manager in Plesk 12 (Windows)

Login to the Plesk control panel On the left hand side menu bar, under Server Management, select Tools & Settings On the next page, select Backup Manager from the Tools & Resources section On the Backup Manager Page, select where you would like to store your backup by selecting the

How to configure a firewall rule in Plesk 12 (Windows)

Login to Plesk with the admin user On the left hand side menu bar, select Tools & Settings under the Server management section. On the next page, click on the Firewall option under the security section. On the Firewall page, make sure that the Firewall is ON as shown in