Author: Steve

Behind all successful web hosting providers are top-of-the-line data centers Whether a hosting provider is leasing space in a data center or owns their own data center, how that …

There’s a lot of controversy in web hosting circles – on how to compete with bandwidth offers, with some providers offering unlimited bandwidth on their plans, although most restrict this …

I think this topic of setting up a residential datacenter has been discussed on multiple forums every few weeks or so, and the comments are almost always the same, …

Which are better? RAID 5 or 10? HDD or SSD? Let’s set some reference points on RAID 5 and RAID 10, and on  HDD or SSD, so that we …

First, RAID is not a backup solution – always employ disaster recovery options. I field queries about – RAID 1 (mirror) software versus hardware solutions from time to time. Both have …