We finished upgrading our Dallas, Texas datacenter to all-NVMe storage. Every Cloud VPS in Dallas now runs on NVMe drives, and every new VM you create there gets NVMe by default. Nothing to enable, no migration to schedule. Why NVMe matters NVMe drives talk to the CPU over PCIe instead of a SATA-era storage bus,…
Backup pricing on Cloud VPS just went down. If you have been keeping fewer restore points than you would like because of cost, this update is for you. The math on retention has always been a quiet compromise. You know a week of restore points is safer than two days, but backup storage bills by…
You can now deploy Cloud VPS instances from Windows Server 2022 Datacenter and Windows Server 2025 Datacenter templates. Evaluation editions of both are available alongside the licensed templates, so you can test before you commit to licensing. The templates appear in the OS list when you create a VM or reinstall an existing one. Filter…
Every Cloud VPS now runs with Performance Guard, our cluster load balancing system. It watches host load across the whole cluster and moves work off a busy host before the neighbors there slow your VPS down. Every Cloud VPS plan includes it. You do not have to turn it on. The noisy neighbor problem A…
Cloud computing has really hit its stride in the past few years. As more business has migrated to the space, providers have been busy creating new offerings to meet the specific needs of business consumers. The technology that drives cloud computing has become available to business and as a result, they are rapidly adapting it to run…
Cloud computing has transformed the way business operates. As the space matures and evolves, more services become available to the end user. Many critics have brought up the issue of security. Cloud service web hosting providers have always been aware of possible security issues and have continued to develop infrastructure with an eye towards securing…
For many start-ups Amazon web services offers a way to grow their infrastructure quickly and cost effectively, at least in the early stages of the business. For many, as the business grows, Amazon web services can become a bit clunky and expensive. Amazon web services or AWS is a cloud-computing platform that provides customers with…
The cloud provides businesses with many benefits like flexibility, scalability, cost effective resource use and elasticity, but one of the greatest benefits of cloud computing is how it’s changed the nature of disaster recovery and business continuity. The cloud has made disaster recovery more cost-effective and has allowed smaller businesses to deploy comprehensive disaster recovery…
Businesses migrating to the cloud are often surprised to find that after the initial set-up and learning curve, the benefits increase. Along with cost savings, mobility, automatic backup, and storage on demand, the cloud offers truly scalable hosting. In the days of the dedicated server, adding employees to the network, required large capital outlays for…
The biggest concern keeping many business owners on the sidelines of the cloud revolution centers around security. Essentially, security on the cloud is no more or less safe than with on-premise systems. Actually, the IT structure of cloud hosting holds tremendous potential for organizations to improve their overall information security. A Gartner’s CIO Agenda survey…