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Leaseweb and Scopic: Building Virtual Bridges with Hybrid Cloud
Guest blog written by Leon Horbach of high-end VR production company Scopic. In a world that is more characterized by global connectivity than ever before, Cloud hosting providers such as Leaseweb play vital roles. The seamless transportation of data, in combination with rock-solid security and innovative products, are key factors when making both the private […]
Harnessing Millions of CDN Statistics With Apollo
At Leaseweb, our CDN team focuses on delivering ultra-high performance globally for any content while remaining the most competitive player in the field. We process and monitor millions of requests per minute and that level of traffic requires a robust and flexible statistics platform that provide us and our customers with real-time accurate information. Our […]
What does your cloud cost?
Third-party cloud solutions offer a truly transformational cost advantages over traditional on-premise hosting – but you’re not going to capture most of them with a rudimentary, “back of the envelope” analysis. That’s the lesson of our latest white paper, “Developing a cloud sourcing strategy: Two steps to calculate the total cost of ownership of your […]
How DJ Hardwell uses cloud to get 22,000 fans on stage
VR is hot hot hot! As the technology is becoming widely available, we see more and more customers picking it up. For example, Leaseweb recently teamed up with Hardwell – the world’s #1 DJ – and technology partners Littlstar and VBR to pull off the first 360-degree, VR live stream of an EDM performance. Using our private cloud, CDN, […]
Setting up Leaseweb CDN on WordPress
Setting up WordPress on Leaseweb CDN is very easy, as you’ll see. A couple of assumptions before we start: WordPress is installed on the origin server WP Super Cache or similar is installed within WordPress An “Origin” that points to your WordPress installation is already defined within your Leaseweb CDN control panel. Configuring the zone itself […]
Security precaution: update your passwords
The only way to stay safe on the internet is by helping each other minimize security risks. So as a precaution, I want to make you aware of a situation that could possibly affect you. There are currently several databases available on the internet containing personal data such as e-mail addresses, user names and associated passwords. […]
Leaseweb: A product portfolio that meets online gaming’s many different needs
Because gaming companies have so many different performance and scalability requirements for online games, it’s impossible to create a one-size-fits-all infrastructure for them. Different platforms (mobile/tablet, PC and console) and different business models (Pay-to-Play, Free-to-Play, etc) mean that every gaming company has different needs when it comes to technology, scalability and performance. This is why […]
Abstractions over Scale – interview with Docker
Aanand Prasad, an engineer from Docker, spoke about Abstractions Over Scale and Docker’s open-source software suite at Leaseweb’s TechSummit in Amsterdam: We wanted to get a little more insight into how tools like these are affecting the traditional ways of scaling technology: Leaseweb: A lot of times you see a gap between the engineers who […]
Protecting patient data with Leaseweb
In a study released this week by the Ponemon Institute, a U.S. privacy research group, almost 90 percent of surveyed healthcare organizations reported they had at least one data breach involving patient data in the last two years; 45 percent reported more than five breaches. Healthcare records are a prime target for hackers because they are such a […]
Scaling Our Engineering Department (part 2)
This is the second part in a 2-part series. Read part 1. In my last post I gave an overview of how we started the process of changing the way we do agile development at Leaseweb by setting goals,