Survival in the cloud: Don't Put All Your Eggs in One Basket
Your cloud provider, such as our ColossusCloud service, is the basket.Your apps and clients are the eggs.What was the lesson you were always taught from when you were a child? Don't put all eggs in one...
View ArticleSurvival in the Cloud: Downtime is not a matter of IF, it is a matter of WHEN.
A great thinker once said: "The Internet is held together with bubble gum and duct tape". And that is so true.One thing we like to educate our clients on is the subject of downtime. Downtime can be...
View ArticleSurvival in the cloud: Dump your SQL database to Dropbox/Box/Resilio
Since your data is, of course, highly valuable, your VMs are most likely signed up to one of our backup solutions (What? They are not??? You should!).With ColossusCloud's backup service, our system...
View ArticleSurvival in the cloud: backup, backup, backup!
We just can't stress this enough.Our daily usage of "the cloud" in our phones, for example, have given us a sense that every thing we put in the cloud is safe and we do not need to worry about it. The...
View ArticleProduct Updates: Announcing our Improved Backup Service for ColossusCloud!
We are so proud to finally make this new system available to all customers of ColossusCloud at all of our six data centers!This is a project we've been working on for a long time in order to reliably...
View ArticleProduct updates: Introducing our new Client Portal, version 5!
Head over to our new URL, https://portal.serverpoint.com, to see our new creation!We are so proud to release this new version to all our clients. This has been a year long project!With our new portal,...
View ArticleSurvival in the cloud: A Shared environment, such as Virtual Servers, may not...
Do you like control? You don't like it when your public cloud provider announces a maintenance window and you have no control over that?We get it. No one likes downtime or forcing you to reboot your...
View ArticleWhy is a Windows VPS usually more expensive than a Linux one?
Customers ask us this question often, and the answer is that a lot of elements contribute to the pricing of a Windows based virtual server.First, and most obvious, are the Microsoft licensing fees...
View ArticleProduct updates: Our Commitment to Transparency!
We'd like to introduce you to our new status page!Please visit https://status.serverpoint.com to take a look!In it, we will be posting any kinds of maintenance windows, as well as any service impacting...
View ArticleProduct updates: The Xeon Scalable CPU is now here!
We are proud to announce a new line of dedicated servers, based on Intel's new Xeon Scalable processor, the successor to the popular Xeon E5 CPU line!We are offering these servers in a variety of...
View ArticleWhy the New Silicon Valley generations don't really know anything better than...
There is one thing in common in Silicon Valley among all the companies and startups I've visited: young, energetic men and women trying to take over the world.But with such youth, CEOs of companies are...
View ArticleWhy did we choose Nevada as our primary data center for cloud, vps hosting,...
The answer to that is one influenced by mother nature. See, southern Nevada, which includes the great city of Las Vegas, NV, is part of the United States' only natural disaster free zone. This zone...
View ArticleLow cost dedicated servers are dead. You no longer need one
There was a time when dedicated server providers competed with one another to offer servers at under $100/mo. That is no longer the case.You may have noticed with the release of our new line of Xeon...
View ArticleLet's begin with a fact. Windows isn't free. Yet you see all those cheap...
What do you get with our competitor's cheap Windows VPS? As a licensed Microsoft partner, we have to pay Microsoft for each copy of Windows, Microsoft Office, Microsoft SQL, etc., that we provide for...
View ArticleAmsterdam, we love you!
Did you know we operate six data centers around the globe? Well, know now that the beautiful city of Amsterdam hosts one of them!Our Amsterdam, Netherlands data center opened back in December of 2015....
View ArticleDo you believe in unicorns? You may also believe in a free VPS
Every day, while doing SEO research for our websites, we constantly come across the famous keyword: free vps, as well as dozens of variations of it.We also see a lot of clients arrive at our website...
View ArticleWindows 7 is back at ColossusCloud
For many years, we offered Windows 7 as one of the operating systems available for customers to install onto their new VPS servers. But as Windows 10 became popular, we decided to remove Windows 7 as...
View ArticleDefinitions in cloud: What is IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service)?
You are creating your new app or website; you want it to be popular and grow. You will of course need servers, which need network, OS management, patch management, Internet uplinks, DDoS protection,...
View ArticleDedicated Servers 2019: The Next Generation.
What do we have in store for our dedicated servers in the upcoming year?You may have noticed we just released a new line of dedicated servers based on the Xeon Scalable Silver and Xeon E3 v6 CPUs.This...
View ArticleNew SSD options for your dedicated server!
We are pleased to announce that we are now offering more options for your dedicated server's storage needs.Powered by Samsung, Sandisk and Micron, the following enterprise SSD storage devices are now...
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