VPS & Dedicated

Servers aren’t limited to just the data center. Although it isn’t always realistically feasible to host a website from home, there are a number of good reasons to have a home server. Perhaps the best reason is a home server can provide a central place of storage. Keep all your …

With all the innovations being made in data center technology, the last thing one would expect to hear is a company like Yahoo going back in time to improve its efficiency. But that’s exactly what the company did when it modeled its new Lockport, NY, data center after chicken coop. …

Many web hosting providers and dedicated server data centers will provide router-level firewalls for their customers, mainly as a precaution to protect their infrastructure. A bot, virus, or other form of malware that gets into a single network can spread from server-to-server very quickly. On some home networks, a router …

A webhostingtalk.com user asked an important question: Are solid-state drives “the next big thing” in server hardware? SSDs provide a distinct advantage over traditional platter-based hard drives because they have no moving parts. This not only makes them more reliable, but increases their speeds. SSDs are up to five times …

When operating a dedicated server with more website users than just yourself, you always run the risk of getting attacked because of a security hole in a user-installed script. That situation is now compounded by the fact that users also install plugins and extensions for their blogs and content management …

Compressing files is an important skill to have. You never know when you might need to move large amounts of data, and knowing how to compress them into a smaller sized single archive can save you a lot of time and disk space. Compressed files are particularly useful for backups …

Data centers use a lot of water for cooling. A lot. According to one estimate, a 15-megawatt facility uses some 360,000 gallons of water per day! That’s why Google has been pioneering water recycling. Joe Kava of Google stated: You need a holistic approach to water management. Water consumption isn’t …

Twitter announced plans yesterday to move from its managed-hosting provider to its very own data center. The social networking site is currently the twelfth-busiest on the Internet and growing. To give you an idea, Twitter’s traffic grew 1,358% last year alone! During peak hours, as many as 1,000 tweets are …

In recent years Iceland has marketed itself as a low-cost data center haven, but this week a thick ash cloud on the volcanic island has caused some to think twice about the viability of data centers in Iceland. Because Iceland sits right on top of two major tectonic plates, it …

Just because you spent the better part of a day hammering down the security bolts on your ironclad server, it does not mean your server is secure. Being human, you could have overlooked something small but potentially devastating. The only real way to test the effectiveness of any security measure …