While you can host a Minecraft server on your home computer, it might not be the best idea. Here’s why: Minecraft is a very resource intensive PC game requiring large amounts of CPU, RAM and bandwidth to ensure good performance. Unless you are ready to make a significant investment in these hardware resources and put a great deal of strain on your Internet connection, you may want to consider using powerful and reliable dedicated servers or VPS hosting services from ServerPoint.com.
Read more →In an effort to cut infrastructure, real estate and energy costs, the federal government is planning to shut down nearly 40% of their in-house data centers by 2015. Currently, the federal government spends about $80 billion on IT annually; however, by shutting down more than 800 of their data centers over the next four years, they could end up saving the country about $5 billion dollars. Government data center consolidation and closings are not entirely due to massive budget deficits. It is part of the plans to move as much as one quarter of federal information technology enterprise to the “cloud”.
Read more →At ServerPoint.com we are now officially offering cPanel/WHM VPS-based licenses for Cloud+ hosting. For a low fee you can now get a powerful web hosting control panel system that allows you to easily and effectively manage every aspect of your web hosting account as well as your VPS servers.
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For all Linux enthusiasts and experts, we are pleased to announce that Red Hat’s new Fedora 15 is now available on our dedicated servers and Cloud+ VPS hosting platform. This new release of Fedora is available for both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures.
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Ever so often, some believe that the limitations of the physical world will soon make it impossible to make a CPU faster and/or smaller. Intel however keeps reminding us that there is always a way to overcome an obstacle. Intel’s new line of Sandy Bridge CPUs are both faster and cooler than previous Intel Core generations. “Cool” in the sense that these CPUs run at a much lower power level, reducing the high heat generated in our data center.
Read more →ServerPoint’s Cloud+ now features easy and convenient access to your virtual machine’s screen, keyboard and mouse.
Read more →In an effort to meet a high demand for cloud-based hosting services, ServerPoint.com has expanded data center space to house our new cloud computing operation. The new data center capacity will be used with Cloud+ to host over 30,000 virtual machines, as well as to house over 2,000 dedicated servers.
Read more →Due to the fast growth of mobile phones, constantly checking email every few minutes, it has made it necessary to upgrade one of our longest running email servers for shared hosting services. This server houses about 5% of the hundreds of thousands of email accounts that our shared web hosting clients use.
Read more →ServerPoint.com launches a new cloud based VPS hosting service aimed at providing customers with a greater level of reliability, scalability and control.
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