At Leaseweb we believe that innovation drives everything we do – so to be recognized by Gartner as a “Visionary” in its June 2013 Magic Quadrant for European Managed Hosting* is something that makes everyone here happy. According to Gartner, Visionaries have an ‘early-mover’ advantage in providing cloud services as well as road maps that may […]
As web gaming is growing, more and more needs to be taken into consideration when designing a new game or platform. This sentiment is underlined by a recent quote from John Carmack: “I can send an IP packet to Europe faster than I can send a pixel to the screen. How f*d up is that?”
Free to Play, often abbreviated to F2P, means you can play a game without paying a dime for it. Sounds great doesn’t it? Some industry experts say that F2P might be the first step towards a totally new gaming market. Until then, some games start out as a Pay to Play version (like DC Universe […]
The Leaseweb Customer Portal is the place where you can manage many features of your hosting infrastructure solutions. We deployed a few new features, which we describe below.
It’s widely reported that the online platform is evolving rapidly, with social media, mobile and cloud computing acting as the top catalysts. So to us – and many other people – it wasn’t a surprise when in February last year the final batches of IPv4 addresses were allocated, heralding the end of the IPv4 era. […]
In a previous blog we highlighted how Twitter is increasingly becoming a central and essential part of Leaseweb and more specifically is used as a customer service tool. It allows us to maintain a very transparent and open relationship with our customers.
Our Corporate Social Responsibility program is really important to everyone at Leaseweb, and is something which is reflected on a number of levels throughout our work. We constantly address our practices to ensure that they are kept sustainable, and for this reason we utilize green datacenters. Besides this, Leaseweb is connecting more clients to their […]
Last week, Leaseweb visited the PLNOG (Polish Network Operator Group) conference, the biggest networking conference in and around Poland. Over 500 attendees formed one big melting pot of different telecom, network and IT companies. There were also lot of network architects, system administrators, datacenter employees and content providers visiting the event, which is held on […]
Leaseweb is entering its 15th year of selling Windows based hosting in its Netherlands datacenters. In fact – the first 7 servers that Leaseweb hosted were Windows servers. Now, years later there are tens of thousands of servers in the Leaseweb facilities stretched across multiple datacenters throughout the world.
Cybercrime dominated the IT and national press in 2010 with many high profile incidents from global cyber attacks to international botnet busts. Stuxnet, which is a form of malware that targets industrial equipment appeared in June 2010, and changed the cyber security landscape as we know it. The Stuxnet incident provided a wakeup call to […]