Having your own datacenter gives you great flexibility. Especially when you have a highly efficient datacenter with low PUE and decent electrical pricing. Lately we have been thinking about GPU servers, as we already have some questions for them and… Continue Reading
It has been quite an year over here at Pulsed Media. New datacenter, new network, new servers. In March we moved to the new datacenter, moving the hardware and bringing it up. To our surprise it went super smooth and… Continue Reading
Rolling Updates: The What & Why We do slow rolling updates for all the servers in operation. In most simplest terms this means only some of the servers are updated at a single time. Updating process depends on how major… Continue Reading
You may have been wondering what differentiates managed dediseedbox, and what are the best features? Managed dediseedbox is a dedicated server seedbox service, but unlike a dedicated server, you don’t need to worry about any of the setup, maintenance etc.… Continue Reading
What are all these acronyms? What is the difference between MB, MiB and 1000 and 1024 dividers, especially when it comes to hard drive sizes? The KiB, MiB, TiB style became more widespread known when Ubuntu started using this. It’s… Continue Reading
There’s been some chat going on about disk redundancy in Seedboxes. So how does the landscape look like? Google search of RAID5 Seedbox yields pretty much no results other than our services! Some results for RAID10 seedbox query, but all those… Continue Reading
Collecting I/O performance metrics We started to collect quite precise disk performance stats. First week of data is here! These stats are collected from the lowest service to the highest, a significant portion is already being monitored this meticulously. This… Continue Reading
We have renewed the Dedicated Seedbox range! New server models, cost efficient as always and high performing. The big change is that it’s now fully automated on top of being fully managed. What this means is that you can get… Continue Reading
We have been testing and benchmarking the Seagate’s new 8TB Archive HDD, which features SMR, Shingled Magnetic Recording. Described in the following video: It is marketed as enterprise nearline storage – with the accompanying 5 year warranty! This is a… Continue Reading
We’ve been re-engineering the Mini-ITX server platform for quite some time now. Some of you may remember the twitter pic of the old times: All 3 of these stacks are still being used in our datacenter, and stacks by itself… Continue Reading