GigeNET Marks 15 Years of Selling cPanel by Reinvesting in Relationship GigeNET, an innovator in resilient managed cloud and dedicated hosting, reaffirms partnership with cPanel to mark 15 years of selling cPanel licensing. “cPanel has been so instrumental in the creation of the hosting industry I think you would be hard pressed to imagine the […]
Migrating your websites from one server to another can be a difficult and time consuming process, but with preparation and consideration, it can go smoothly. Throughout my time as a systems administrator, migrations have been some of the most time consuming tasks I’ve worked on. The purpose of this guide is to provide you with […]
Right-sizing is not about cutting resources or radically changing your environment. It is about finding the best options while taking your process into account. Even then we typically save customers 40% off their monthly costs. Our solution architects audit your infrastructure, finding optimization points you may have missed or haven’t had time to find. Optimizations […]
Syncthing is a fantastic decentralized file synchronization utility, which functions in a manner similar to other cloud storage services like Dropbox or Google Drive, but is self-hosted and does not require a central server to operate. We recently covered Syncthing on another blog post and wanted to give some further more condensed tips for first […]
There are a variety of computing workloads that support successful business operations. If we were to maximize resource usage for these workloads, we would end up with a vast assortment of computer chassis, hard drives, RAM chips, and a host of various other computer parts. And although this assortment would provide coverage for the current […]
You can’t reach your site and you are starting to panic. Quickly, you log into your hosting provider’s ticketing system and type out, “OMG! Site Down! Help, Help, Help!” Now, before you click Submit on that ticket, take a moment to go through a simple checklist that may help resolve the issue sooner, and possibly […]
This adventure was kicked off by my intent to research an open source supplement or replacement for the enterprise backup solution R1soft ServerBackup. At GigeNET we heavily utilize R1soft, and its API to manage the backups for our fully managed customers. The backup software we have chosen all range in feature set, and complexity. Here […]
From that presentation you were up all night working on to important tax information, it’s second nature for us to save copies of our personal data whether that be on a thumb drive or a service like Dropbox. Yet, drives fail, coffee spills, and humans make mistakes. And the fact is, the risk of losing […]
Privacy and security can be difficult to achieve, especially for your entire organization. It involves many factors and can be difficult to manage from the top. While you may not want to, or don’t have the ability to manage every aspect of your organization’s members there are some things you can do. One of the […]
What is Syncthing? Syncthing is a decentralized file synchronization tool. It shares similarities with commercial cloud storage products you may be familiar with, like Dropbox or Google Drive, but unlike these cloud storage products, it does not require you to upload your data to a public cloud. It also shares similarities with self-hosted cloud storage […]