Designing your Infrastructure for Failover

Don’t bet on a single horse Design your IT infrastructure in such a way that it can survive major outages (the easy way) If you run a webshop, are in the ad-serving world, or another industry that requires a continuous online presence, you are aware that (long) downtimes are risky for your business. This means […]

Hyperscalers in the Cloud: How to Keep Your Flexibility and Independence

Easy Start with Hyperscalers Hyperscalers provide cloud compute and network infrastructure services on a large scale. Well-known hyperscalers include Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and Microsoft Azure. These cloud resources are easily accessible and scalable. As service options and resource availability seem to be almost unlimited, these platforms attract many users and […]

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 […]

How the European Union is Rebalancing the Global Cloud Market

The global cloud market needs a major rehaul. Over half of the worldwide cloud market share is dominated by five companies (think AWS, Google, Microsoft, etc.). No industry can operate as a free market (or even really be considered one) when big brands are this dominant, and the cloud market is no exception. Monopolies leave […]