From that presentation you were up all night working on to important tax information, it’s second nature for us to save copies of our personal data whether that be on a thumb drive or a service like Dropbox. Yet, drives fail, coffee spills, and humans make mistakes. And the fact is, the risk of losing […]
Privacy and security can be difficult to achieve, especially for your entire organization. It involves many factors and can be difficult to manage from the top. While you may not want to, or don’t have the ability to manage every aspect of your organization’s members there are some things you can do. One of the […]
What is Syncthing? Syncthing is a decentralized file synchronization tool. It shares similarities with commercial cloud storage products you may be familiar with, like Dropbox or Google Drive, but unlike these cloud storage products, it does not require you to upload your data to a public cloud. It also shares similarities with self-hosted cloud storage […]
During day-to-day server administration, there are a variety of important system metrics to analyze in order to assess the performance of the server, as well as diagnose any issues. A few of the most important metrics from a hardware standpoint for a system administrator to monitor are CPU usage, memory usage, disk I\O. Log data […]
What is Ansible? Ansible is a world leading automation and configuration management tool. At GigeNET we heavily invest in the use of Ansible as our automation backbone. We use it to manage deployments on a large array of our platforms from our public cloud’s 1-Click applications to managing our own internal systems desired configurations. Have […]
Cloud computing is an operations model, and a cloud server (or VM) is the productization of that operations model. There is no Cloud Layer When it comes to the actual cloud server, there is no cloud layer or cloud software. Software called a hypervisor is used to abstract resources through virtualization. Cloud itself is not […]
There is a lot of noise these days about this soon-to-be implemented EU regulation, the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), making the topic hard to miss — but how much do you understand about GDPR, and to what extent can it can impact your U.S.-based business? What is this GDPR thing, and why should you […]
Over the past few weeks, a new DDoS attack vector through the use of memcached has become prevalent. Memcached is an object caching system with the original intent of speeding up dynamic LiveJournal websites back in 2003. It does this by caching data in RAM instead of calling data from a hard drive, thus reducing […]
GigeNET Cloud Adds Package Based Public Cloud for Easier Consumption GigeNET, an innovator in resilient managed cloud and dedicated hosting, announced, through their subsidiary GigeNET Cloud, a new cloud server offering, GigeNET Cloud Lite. “Our classic cloud product allowed for extreme levels of granular control over system resources with the ability to scale memory by […]
GigeNET adds the last server building block to its server line-up, and completely removes legacy hardware GigeNET, an innovator in resilient managed cloud and dedicated hosting, announced the release of the Dual E5-2630 v4 and the finalization of the GigeNET server line. This 20 core server has space for up to two terabytes of DDR4 […]