Scalability Blog

Big data security is everyone’s responsibility.  Using weak passwords or entering your password from compromised workstations can undermine your organization’s entire infrastructure.  Even on a workstation free of trojans, viruses, and software based keyloggers, there is still a threat from hardware keyloggers.
Hardware based keyloggers for USB and PS/2 devices, such as keyboards and mice, are very affordable and easy to conceal. For $40-$60 anyone can buy a hardware keylogger and introduce it …

Magento is a powerful and incredibly flexible ecommerce program. While the expansive ecommerce platform offers an enormous amount of store customization, a slow loading online site will do little to entice a customer to buy its product. An optimized server running Magento, on the other hand, can offer a strong performance, resulting in higher sales and happier customers. To ensure the lowest system loads and best possible response time, ServerStack works to …

Fellow nerds!  If there’s anything that has a tendency to work up linux guys, it’s text editors.  And in general, people tend to traditionally gravitate towards two camps: camp emacs or camp vi.   While other newer software exists, such as nano, pico, or joe – it’s important to be comfortable using vi and emacs.  vi will be available pretty much everywhere you need it, and emacs, when installed, is intensely featureful.   Besides, …

Nginx, a web server exported from chilly Russia, was officially found to be the 2nd most popular webserver for active websites in June of 2012 by Netcraft. In terms of overall marketshare, the study placed it third, behind Apache and Microsoft IIS. However, considering that the server’s first public release was in 2006, the software’s growth has been nothing short of exponential.
Nginx is now the official web server for over 60 …

Yes, there are a lot of options in the crowded managed hosting space. However, if you are considering a managed hosting provider, there are few important questions that you will need to answer:
1) Are they reliable and stable?
2) What is the level of support that I will be receiving?
3) Will my site be able to scale effectively while experiencing maximum performance?
Sometimes, these question can be difficult to answer and that is why we’ve gone …

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — January 26, 2012 — Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), a provider of global data center services, today announced that ServerStack, a provider of managed hosting services, will continue to leverage its presence within the Equinix International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data centers to deliver high-end managed hosting services including virtualization, storage, load balancing, VPN and CDN. Since joining Platform Equinix™ in 2008, ServerStack has drawn upon the standardization, consistency and …

ServerStack, a managed hosting provider, announced today its installation of Internap’s Performance IP™ service. “With our customers’ demand for faster performance and their sensitivity to even small latency fluctuations for their streaming media services, Internap and its route-optimized global IP network was a great fit,” said Ben Uretsky, CEO at ServerStack.
Internap’s Performance IP service optimizes Internet traffic by leveraging the company’s patented Managed Internet Route Optimizer™ (MIRO) technology – which dynamically determines the best path for traffic across multiple Internet …

With increased demand for our European Managed Hosting we are excited to announce continued expansion of our presence at our premier Telecity facility in Amsterdam. In addition to the new racks that we are setting up we are also taking this opportunity to deploy a new networking fabric with 10G connectivity at the Core and extending to our top of the rack switches.
Utilizing 10G connectivity from the Core to the top of rack switches allows customers to spike their bandwidth …

When seeking server hosting plans for business or personal use, it is important to consider several factors. In addition to choosing a type of server (Shared, Dedicated, Virtual, or Cloud Server), purchasers must decide between Managed and Unmanaged hosting. Although both support the actual server hardware, managed hosting services take on the responsibility for all server maintenance. This is especially useful for consumers who do not want to focus their resources on technical and server administrative tasks.
Managed Technical Support
Instead of …

We are happy to announce today that we have finished our deployment of Isilon scale-out storage as the primary storage resource for our managed hosting services. Using Isilon’s NL-Series, powered by the OneFS® operating system, allows us to provide our customers with on-demand storage resources and enable them to scale applications storage needs without limitations.
“Our customers expect their IT resources on-demand, meaning we can’t use traditional storage since it doesn’t scale quickly or cost-effectively,” said Ben Uretsky, CEO, ServerStack. “Isilon …