SSH, short for Secure Shell, is a remote administration and network protocol; originally designed to replace Telnet and other unsecured protocols such as the Berkeley Remote Shell (rsh). SSH enables secure remote system administration and file transfer over unsecured networks. In this article we will talk about the SSH protocol and its versions, SSH clients
CDN is the acronym for Content Delivery Network or Content Distribution Network. The fast growth of the Internet worldwide led to the emergence of CDNs in the late 90s. They were born as a solution to mitigate the Internet’s performance bottlenecks. Since the Internet was quickly becoming mission-critical for a growing number of companies and
The 95th percentile bandwidth metering method, also known as “burstable billing”, is the most effective method used for metering and billing bandwidth usage. That is probably why it has become a standard among most Internet Service Providers (ISPs) worldwide. This flexible method avoids penalizing customers for data transfer peaks and helps providers reduce their infrastructure
Due to the success of the eCommerce Mascarillas y Más, thanks to Boticaria García’s1 charity masks project, it was necessary to change the IT infrastructure to support traffic peaks and avoid losing sales. While looking for a cloud environment that met their requirements, they opted for a High-Availability private cloud at Stackscale. In the following
Data center fires are rare but they are also a good example of how important Disaster Recovery planning is. Most fires in data centers are quickly located at the source, allowing the equipment to be isolated and the damage contained to a small area. But their impact can be catastrophic if they are not quickly
Intel® Cascade Lake is the first microarchitecture to introduce in-hardware mitigations for the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities. Cascade Lake is the former name of the 2nd generation of Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors. This generation includes many improvements in terms of speed, security, performance and efficiency. Intel®’s Cascade Lake microarchitecture features Cascade Lake is the codename
When migrating to the cloud, security must be taken into consideration from the beginning. By preparing a secure migration to the cloud, you will not only avoid many risks, but also save a lot of time and money. There are many factors to consider when migrating to the cloud, from your company’s current security measures
08/06/2021 – Amsterdam European Private Cloud provider Stackscale — based in the Netherlands and Spain — expands its infrastructure with new data centers in Amsterdam and Madrid. This expansion allows the provider to offer new and upgraded services and products, such as colocation services and further business continuity and Disaster Recovery solutions. Since Q1-2021, Stackscale
After launching our new server line in Q4-2020, we are happy to announce we have also expanded our infrastructure to new state-of-the-art data centers in the Netherlands and Spain. By expanding our data centers network, we have also added new products and services, and improved some of the existing services. Since Q1-2021 we have two
We are happy to be one of the first Public Mirrors of Rocky Linux in the Netherlands and Spain. We are pleased to support such a passionate, community-driven Linux distribution. To collaborate with this open-source project, we have delivered one mirror in Stackscale’s public mirror in Amsterdam and another one in Stackscale’s public mirror in
