Articles by Andy Pace
Today I’m going to be explaining how to add additional hard drives to a Linux/cPanel server. Before I get into that, I’ll give everyone a little background information on myself. I’ve been working in the webhosting field for quite a long time now doing everything from answering phones, building servers, and taking out the trash. [...]
“BGP” also known as the Border Gateway Protocol is the hidden beast behind any service provider, providing highly available routes and remedying failed links to upstream providers on the fly. BGP is often overlooked and not understood, yet chugs away making sure that end users get the fastest route possible. My goal here is to [...]
Lately we have been doing everything we can to help out the open source community along the lines of mirroring linux distributions and providing faster spots to download kernel source, and our latest mirror addition is no exception! Over the past few months SingleHop has been working closely with cPanel engineers in setting up a [...]
To help kernel.org celebrate 10 years of being the primary spot to grab the latest linux kernel source, SingleHop would like to add The Linux Kernel Archives their participating mirror list! The idea of Linux has been buzzing around technology centers everywhere since 1983, and in 1997 kernel.org decided to take it upon themselves to [...]
SingleHop is now an official mirror for the CentOS operating system! http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=30 You read correctly, SingleHop is now contributing to the Open Source movement at the rate of 2MBps. We hope to see a dramatic increase in usage in the next few months, but for right now we are just happy to be included in [...]
At SingleHop, we’ve got a couple of great services that can keep you a step ahead of trouble with your dedicated server: Event Notification, and QuickReaction. These can mean the difference between an unhappy client, or an issue being resolved before the same customer ever notices. Here is a quick rundown of what they entail. [...]
Zenoss won the Sourceforge project of the month recently, and ironically enough, SingleHop utilizes this brilliant piece of software to monitor network statistics and customer servers. Zenoss is rich with many features that sets it above the competition. Auto-discovery, which is the automatic importing of services into the Zenoss database, is one of the many [...]
We hear it all of the time. “How did you set up our server so quickly?” Well, read on, and we’ll tell you a bit about how we’re able to deploy servers in less than two hours. SingleHop utilizes the PXE protocol (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preboot_Execution_Environment) to deploy new production environments. Not only does this allow us to [...]