How to Improve Operational Excellence in IT: The Path to Organizational Growth

In today’s business world, operational efficiency is more than a buzzword; it’s a philosophy that guides companies towards excellence. At the heart of this philosophy are concepts such as process optimization, Six Sigma and Lean Management.  These concepts, though powerful, are amplified by the integration of modern technologies. IT tools and automation bring a new […]

Introducing Leaseweb’s Terraform Plugin

Organizing infrastructure and the various teams involved can create confusion and headaches. Terraform is an excellent tool for managing infrastructure as it gives you easy control over all your infrastructure from one place.  As part of our effort to provide customers with more tooling to help them manage their infrastructure in a simple and reliable […]

Infrastructure Monitoring Explained

Monitoring your IT infrastructure is a critical part of ensuring both internal and external performance.  Just as your business continues day-in and day-out, your services need to be provided in the same fashion. If something goes wrong, you need to know about it and fix it as quickly as possible. The best practice is to […]

How to Optimize Your SSDs Drives

This blog is a short introduction to the two different types of SATA SSD and NVMe SSD drives Leaseweb offers its customers. If you want to optimize your costs by selecting the right type of drive, this article is for you. For many years, Leaseweb has been offering SSD drives to its customers. Our customers […]

What Is Kubernetes?

Application container technology – such as Docker and Kubernetes – is revolutionizing application development and bringing previously unimagined flexibility and efficiency to the application software development process. Application containers like Docker containers are lightweight with rapid provisioning (we’re talking milliseconds) and provide an alternative to virtual machines that can consume a high amount of system […]

Success at Apache: The Leaseweb Fork

I joined the Apache CloudStack community in 2012 and became a committer in 2013, eventually becoming a PMC (Project Management Committee) member in 2017. My journey to becoming a PMC was both physical and literal and included several forks in the road. The forks presented themselves in all aspects of my journey – although the […]

How to Set up a Firewall Using pfSense, a Free Open Source Program

What is pfSense? pfSense is a free and open-source program that provides the same (and oftentimes more) functionality as common commercial-grade firewalls. It is based on the FreeBSD operating system with a custom kernel and includes free third-party software packages, adding even more functionality to the program. The program utilizes an intuitive web interface that does not require any UNIX knowledge or the need to manually edit […]

3 Tips for Those Considering an Automated Dedicated Server Solution

Thinking about using an automated dedicated server solution for the first time? Good news – you don’t have to invent everything from scratch. We spoke with Hagen Rother, Lead Architect and Head of IT at LiquidM, a Berlin-based company running one of the first self-service Demand Side Platforms (DSP) on the market. With high amounts of automation being done in a smart way, LiquidM has […]