How Does Hivelocity’s Network Outperform Its Competitors?

By Dan Protich Let’s first explain how internet routing works and why latency can occur on a network. To most simply explain routing I always use an analogy that most people can understand. Each transit provider is a highway for data to travel upon. The more transit providers you have,

A Year in Review- 2013!

By. Steve Eschweiler   The last year was a busy one for us here at Hivelocity. Not only were we busy with the day to day of running a full service data center, we chose to fill our plate with a 12,000 sq ft data center expansion as well. For

How FastPath and CacheCade work to improve RAID speeds and leverage SSD

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 most

HostJury Talks Shop with Hivelocity’s Steven Eschweiler

HostJury is an independent site that provides news and reviews within the hosting & data center industry. Below is the transcript of a recent interview HostJury conducted with Hivelocity’s Director of Operations Steven Eschweiler.   Thu, 30th January 2014, 17:42 Hivelocity is a long-running company with a stellar reputation, one

Introducing Our Brand New Web Site!

Infrastructure on demand provider, Hivelocity, introduced its new web site earlier today. The new site is Hivelocity’s first complete site overhaul in 5 years and is further evidence of the company’s efforts to expand its “Hivelocity Experience” initiative. For several years the Hivelocity brand has evolved to not only stand

Hivelocity Completes SSAE-16, HIPAA and PCI Audits

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 infrastructure

New Account Security Features in myVelocity

We’re proud to announce a series of security enhancements and features to myVelocity for each of our customers. With so many changes arriving, let’s take a moment to look at each one. Session Manager The Session Manager is shown right on the Dashboard. Featuring IP, location, and active time for

Looking for Server Colocation Solutions?

Although many think of this as simply “server operation outsourcing,” there are a number of things that customers have to figure out when they are selecting colocation services; things that they are responsible for even though the servers will be housed off-site. Hardware and Operational Questions Obviously, those who are

Meet the Team – Nate Kennison

While most of our customers don’t know who Nate is, most every customer has seen Nate more than any other member of the Hivelocity Team. No, Nate doesn’t answer the phones, he doesn’t respond to trouble ticket and he does not participate on our live chat either. Nate doesn’t even

Hivelocity Introduces Dual Octadeca Core Servers

Dedicated server, colocation and cloud hosting service provider, Hivelocity, announced today the introduction of its new Dual E5-2600 Haswell Xeon server line. Within this new server line systems can be acquired with up to two eighteen core processors equaling an impressive sixteen physical cores. “Many of our customers require that