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2025-02-13
General

Expanding our operations in Dallas with DFW5

We’re pleased to announce the opening of a new site in Dallas-Fort Worth – DFW5. We’ve continued expanding our data center footprint with the opening of our fifth site in Dallas. Led foremost by customer demand, the expansion will support both existing and new servers.com customers to scale their operations out of the region.

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2025-02-13
Streaming

AVOD vs SVOD: Which is the preferred video on demand platform?

AVOD & SVOD both deliver on-demand content to users but with different revenue generation models. Explore more about AVOD, its latest trends & more in this blog post.

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2025-02-06
Adtech

What is ad fraud? Why is it rising, and how can I prevent it?

Digital advertising fraud is rising. In this blog we discuss how ad fraud impacts ad platforms, and how the industry is combating the problem.

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2025-01-30
Adtech

5 adtech trends and predictions to watch out for in 2025

Uncertainty was the overarching theme in adtech news throughout 2024 - a year dominated by anticipated changes to third party cookies that didn’t materialize and the slowest period for adtech funding in over a decade.

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2025-01-23
Technical

Firewalls and the difference between hardware and software firewalls

Globally, a new cyberattack happens every 39 seconds. Half of all UK businesses report having experienced a security attack in the past 12 months, and looking ahead to 2025, the annual global cost of cybercrime is projected to reach $10.5 trillion.

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2025-01-16
iGaming

The 5 iGaming trends to watch out for in 2025

The iGaming industry has continued its strong growth trajectory over the past 12 months. At the close of 2024, the online gambling market was valued at $93.26 billion and it’s expected to reach in excess of $150 billion by the end of 2029.

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2025-01-09
Streaming

4 streaming infrastructure trends to look out for in 2025

2024 marked a shift in attitude around hyperscale cloud. While its unique scaling capabilities have cemented its place within the streaming industry, the monthly bills are becoming too much for many platforms to keep on top of.

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2025-01-03
Fintech

4 trading trends and predictions to look for in 2025

If I had to pick the biggest trading infrastructure trend of 2024, it would have to be flexibility: how infrastructure can, and should, be adjusted to meet the demands of the markets.

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2024-12-17
Web3

The 3 biggest Web3 trends and predictions to watch out for in 2025

As you do at the end of a year, I’ve been reflecting on conversations I’ve had in 2024 and the one big consistent theme: hybrid infrastructure. Specifically, the market factors over the years that have led to today’s growth in hybrid infrastructure adoption by Web3 companies.

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2024-12-13
Gaming

How live service games will influence three key trends in gaming for 2025

2024 was a tough year for the gaming industry. Falling investment, rising overheads and player expectations combined to make developing and delivering a game more complicated and expensive. Everyone involved in the industry felt the impact.

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2024-12-05
General

Latest updates: New data center locations, improvements to our customer portal, end of life support for Debian 10 LTS and CentOS Linux 7 and more

We are constantly expanding our data center locations in line with customer demand and this year has been our busiest in servers.com history with the opening of six new data centers. Some of these are in existing locations and some in new cities.

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2024-11-19
General

The sunset of Equinix Metal: finding an alternative bare metal provider

Four years after moving into the bare metal space, Equinix has announced it will be shutting down its bare metal service Equinix Metal.

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2024-11-15
General

Expanding into 6 new data center locations to meet customer demand

2024 has been a big year for data center expansion at servers.com. We’ve launched in Miami, which is a new location for us, and expanded five existing operations across Europe, Asia, and the U.S.

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2024-11-07
Technical

Your go-to-guide for bare metal provisioning

You’ve made the decision to go down the bare metal route for your infrastructure and are now at the stage where you need to consider provisioning. Unlike cloud provisioning that is all done virtually, bare metal – as the name suggests – requires physical deployment and is therefore a little more involved.

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2024-10-24
General

What does critical national infrastructure status mean for UK data centers?

The UK Government’s recent decision to classify data centers as critical national infrastructure (CNI) has been welcomed by many in our industry. The CrowdStrike outage was a good reminder of how vital it is for businesses and public sector organizations to have uninterrupted access to secure data sources. The new classification is a long-awaited stake in the ground to acknowledge the growing importance of data centers in providing this level of security and reliability.

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