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2024-12-13
Gaming

How live service games will influence three key trends in gaming for 2025

2024 was a tough year for the gaming industry. Falling investment, rising overheads and player expectations combined to make developing and delivering a game more complicated and expensive. Everyone involved in the industry felt the impact.

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2024-12-05
General

Latest updates: New data center locations, improvements to our customer portal, end of life support for Debian 10 LTS and CentOS Linux 7 and more

We are constantly expanding our data center locations in line with customer demand and this year has been our busiest in servers.com history with the opening of six new data centers. Some of these are in existing locations and some in new cities.

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2024-11-19
General

The sunset of Equinix Metal: finding an alternative bare metal provider

Four years after moving into the bare metal space, Equinix has announced it will be shutting down its bare metal service Equinix Metal.

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2024-11-15
General

Expanding into 6 new data center locations to meet customer demand

2024 has been a big year for data center expansion at servers.com. We’ve launched in Miami, which is a new location for us, and expanded five existing operations across Europe, Asia, and the U.S.

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2024-11-07
Technical

Your go-to-guide for bare metal provisioning

You’ve made the decision to go down the bare metal route for your infrastructure and are now at the stage where you need to consider provisioning. Unlike cloud provisioning that is all done virtually, bare metal – as the name suggests – requires physical deployment and is therefore a little more involved.

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2024-10-24
General

What does critical national infrastructure status mean for UK data centers?

The UK Government’s recent decision to classify data centers as critical national infrastructure (CNI) has been welcomed by many in our industry. The CrowdStrike outage was a good reminder of how vital it is for businesses and public sector organizations to have uninterrupted access to secure data sources. The new classification is a long-awaited stake in the ground to acknowledge the growing importance of data centers in providing this level of security and reliability.

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2024-10-18
Gaming

The cost-management challenge for game studios and how bare metal can help

In this blog I’m going to look at what has led to cost management becoming such a huge challenge for the industry: what has caused it and how game studios can adjust their approach to gaming infrastructure to reduce the pressure it’s putting on already stretched budgets.

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2024-10-10
Technical

3 hyperscale cloud repatriation examples to rethink your infrastructure strategy

Organizations have started to feel the pressure of mounting bills and rising complexities in hyperscale cloud environments. And for some, it’s reached a critical impasse in which maintaining a 100% hyperscale cloud infrastructure has become a significant risk to profitability and control.

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2024-10-03
Technical

Reasons why companies are leaving the cloud [with examples]

In this blog post we explore five reasons why companies are moving away from cloud. Starting with the problem that’s been making headlines throughout 2024– escalating costs.

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2024-09-27
Streaming

How to deliver live low-latency video streaming at scale

Earlier this month, ahead of the International Broadcasting Convention, we sat down with Oliver Lietz, CEO of nanocosmos to talk about the company’s innovative real-time live streaming solutions. Continuing the conversation, Oliver joined servers.com Streaming Specialist, Lukas Navickas on stage at IBC 2024 for a fireside chat on the topic of “how to deliver live low-latency video at scale”.

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2024-09-06
Streaming

An interview with Oliver Lietz, CEO of nanocosmos (+IBC 2024)

Over the space of two decades, real-time live streaming technology has gone from novelty to necessity. Today, the technology is a staple resource for organizations across sectors, enabling them to overcome geographical barriers and engage with global audiences.

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2024-08-15
Technical

Hyperscale cloud misconceptions: expectations vs reality

There are a lot of hyperscale cloud misconceptions. The biggest is that people think it’s going to be easy and simple. The irony is that it once was. Simplicity was the very thing hyperscalers like AWS, Azure and GCP set out to achieve.

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2024-08-08
Technical

Understanding bare metal in a cloud context

It’s a common misconception that bare metal equates only to on-premise environments and cloud to hyperscale environments such as AWS, GCP and Azure. But there is a middle ground that combines bare metal machines and cloud-like provisioning: bare metal cloud.

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2024-07-31
Gaming

Bare metal for gaming gets the recognition it deserves

Research conducted as part of Omdia’s 2024 Cloud Platforms for Games report has, for the first time, included bare metal solutions alongside hyperscale cloud platforms.

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2024-07-23
Technical

MetaTrader Terminal unattended installation just got better

For a long time, we've been able to install MetaTrader terminals automatically, in an unattended mode, with the help of the "/auto" parameter. But up until now, it was only installed into a default folder; you could specify the path in the GUI, but not in the command line.

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