Making a true hybrid cloud solution

Here at Leaseweb we are always open to coming up with new solutions to technical challenges and this is where the pre-sales department comes in. My role as pre-sales engineer is to get a clear understanding of what a customer really wants to achieve and find a suitable solution with the available IT resources. These […]

Huge traffic increase for all virtual server packages

Virtual servers are a cost-effective alternative to bare metal servers. They function like a bare metal server, but run on a flexible virtualization layer. Leaseweb’s virtual servers suit all businesses, from small to medium workloads and offer a reliable, highly scalable infrastructure with full redundancy and fast network-attached storage. Since data traffic will not stop […]

Network economics: more bandwidth for your buck

Balancing the end-user experience of Leaseweb hosted services and network economics At Leaseweb Network, we manage and support the networks and traffic of the various Leaseweb services companies around the world. We also support the advanced networking needs of their customers and protect them from security threats. To ensure an optimized end-user experience for Leaseweb […]

Safeguarding business continuity? Outsourcing helps!

5 tips on outsourcing your IT infrastructure On Friday 27 March, two provinces in the Netherlands were hit by one of the largest power outages in Dutch history, leaving a million households without electricity. Schiphol airport saw flight cancellations, trains stopped running, people were trapped in elevators, and business premises were evacuated. The cost, which ran […]

How to set up basic Leaseweb Private Cloud infrastructure

Ever since we launched Leaseweb Private Cloud, powered by Apache CloudStack, we’ve been scrumming new functionality into the service. Our Private Cloud allows you to set up custom infrastructure, utilizing all kinds of cool features. As this can get quite complicated, we’ve started creating tutorial videos showing you how to do this. I’ve collected the […]

Leaseweb CDN First Anniversary: We’ve only just begun!

What a year! Successfully launching a brand new CDN service from scratch in such a competitive environment has been a tremendous achievement. And now the Leaseweb CDN team is looking forward to presenting you with yet more new features next year as we continuously improve it. We’re really excited to see how much we’ve accomplished […]

MoovingON: Why startups need to start with a hybrid cloud infrastructure

While visiting DLD Tel Aviv last week I had the pleasure of grabbing a coffee with our good friends Roy and Avi, founders of the Israeli company MoovingON. Scalability comes at a price We got into an interesting conversation about startups and how beginning with an elastic cloud platform makes sense for them because it allows […]

Sneaky P2P tactics with video delivery

Hello Leaseweb Blog readers, Lawton Cheney here, writing to you this month about the debatable practice of peer-delivery (P2P) distribution applications in the online video streaming market. Yes, I said peer-to-peer. And no, we are not going to “party like it’s 1999” with Napster. What we have for a quick discussion here, is an Internet […]