The internet can be a scary place for consumers – there’s malware, hacking, phishing attacks and more. Did you know that there were over 317 million new malware variants discovered in 2014 alone? As hackers become more advanced and discover new ways to monetize their efforts, this number continues to increase year-over-year…. Read More

You’ve already heard that Google Fiber is rolling out to nearly three dozen new cities by the end of 2014.  And you’ve probably already read how Google Fiber has caused Time Warner to preemptively step up their bandwidth speeds in select markets.  Isn’t competition great?  Gigabit speeds for all!  And therein lies… Read More

If you have a shared hosting account with us, then you’ve no doubt noticed some massive speed increases over the past month. We’ve spent the past few weeks tuning, testing, and tweaking our shared hosting platform to be faster and stronger than ever before. In addition to the all-new hardware, SSD storage,… Read More

Cloud hosting, when done properly, can be a pretty slick tool.  But more and more customers — especially startups — are discovering that cloud hosting is simply not cost effective past a point.  Unless you’re providing your own infrastructure (servers, network connections, datacenter, SAN, and backup power), cloud hosting costs can quickly… Read More

If you’ve been following our Twitter and Facebook feeds lately, you know we’re getting ready to launch a new line of OpenVZ, Xen, and KVM VPSes within the next month or two.  The servers are currently undergoing testing and burn-in here in Harrisburg, and if all goes according to plan, they’ll be… Read More

While browsing my RSS reader today, I came across the story of PC Pro editor Barry Collins’ rather unfortunate experiment with Hotmail. Long story short, he attempted to revert to Hotmail after six years of Gmail. And although he was initially impressed, his Hotmail account was compromised and used to send spam…. Read More

You’ve probably heard by now that there’s a big ol’ Nor’easter currently slapping around the northeast US. We saw temperatures as high as 84 last week, and now we’re seeing lows in the 30s, significant rainfall, and even a slight chance of wet, slushy snow. With this kind of bad weather comes… Read More