Businesses these days often take a laissez faire approach to their cyber security. Some host things on location and have no more InfoSec than their IT administrator. More and more these days, though, businesses are choosing hosting services in their many varieties. Many believe that because there are techies handling their digital infrastructure, that it
Create Nagios User and Group useradd nagios groupadd nagcmd usermod -a -G nagcmd nagios Update your apt-get package lists: apt-get update Then install the required packages: apt-get install build-essential libgd2-xpm-dev openssl libssl-dev apache2-utils unzip -y Install Nagios apt-get install nagios3 -y –Local Only –OK –Create Web Admin (not needed) user: nagios pw: nagios Now we
In the event that a server has no usable snapshot in block storage to recover from a snapshot from an identical server can be used to recover from. Both servers need to have the same functionality and can’t have unique data. This article is relevant to a Linux VM in block storage running on a
The Fibernet Technical Services Department -otherwise known as Support – serves as an umbrella of the Fibernet corporate structure. This means that the Technical Services Department is a composed of several smaller departments that cover the various sections of services, products, and responsibilities we oversee. A brief list of responsibilities for the Fibernet Technical Services
When you think “tech leader,” Utah might not be the first state that comes to mind—but that’s about to change. Overall, Utah made more jobs in 2014 than any other state in the nation besides North Dakota (another dark horse in the running). However, the job boom in North Dakota is all about gas and
When 451 Research revealed that the colocation and data center market was going to skyrocket to a $36 billion global industry by 2017, that statistic took the headlines—but there was actually much more information revealed in the study. According to the Data Center Knowledge Base (DCKB) study, which considered almost 1,100 data centers in North
Of course you want your colocation provider’s data center to be clean, but what does that mean? In a place where even a tiny bit of debris can lead to problems, making and keeping such a data center clean can sometimes seem on par with working in an OR. One of the leaders in data
When deciding which colocation center you should invest your time and money in, there are plenty of factors to consider. The staff and on-site support, the power grid the facility works with and the results it yields, and the location and accessibility are all aspects that are usually at the top of the clients’ list
Hopefully most businesses and/or website owners will never need it, but “disaster recovery plans” are something you need to create and update on a regular basis. While millions of dollars are lost each year thanks to critical business data being lost in a myriad of ways, many of these losses are actually preventable—but you need to take
There are well over 1,000 colocation data centers in the US, but the real growth hub is happening in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region. In order to keep up with the demands, SYS-CON Media reports that APAC dishes up just over 26 percent of total energy usage consumed by data centers around the globe. However, there
