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SiteGround, a web hosting service, has opened a new data center in Madrid, Spain, the company announced in June. This marks the seventh SiteGround data center to open around the world and the fourth to open in Europe. 

When choosing which data center to host your site, it’s best to select one close to where the majority of your web traffic comes from. The new data center will best serve people whose traffic mostly comes from Europe, in particular from Spain, Portugal, Andorra and other nearby…

SiteGround, a leading web hosting provider, has announced the opening of a new data center location in Madrid, Spain. This expansion is a follow-up to the 2020 decision to partner with Google and begin using Google Cloud for part of the SiteGround hosting infrastructure. The Madrid facility represents SiteGround’s seventh data center, joining locations in the Netherlands, Singapore, London, Sydney, Frankfort, and the United States.

News of this opening begs the question: Why does the choice of server location matter?

New Data Center and CDN Location Announced June 17, 2022

“As soon as Google Cloud, on which our platform is built, announced the launch of their new region Madrid, we started the process of adding this location to our network too,” said…

Websites crash for numerous reasons, but you can boil it down to one thing: Dependence.

For us, dependence is a significant cause of tension and anxiety. Think about it: If you start craving something — safety, reassurance, validation, dopamine, freedom, money — your attention glues to it. And if you can’t get it? You tense up, and your mood changes.

Thankfully, websites don’t suffer as humans do. However, their response to uncertainty and instability is inherently similar.

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The current web hosting model usually depends on one pathway for data and energy to flow. And when that path isn’t available, websites collapse.

Multi-data center clustering is the solution to this anxious,…

RESTON, Va.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Transaction Network Services (TNS) has launched its popular Managed Hosting and Colocation offering in Madrid, which is set to benefit financial market participants looking to access Spain’s principal stock exchange, Bolsas y Mercados Españoles (BME).

This is TNS’ first deployment in Spain and joins Frankfurt, Germany and Bergamo, Italy as the organization’s third Managed Hosting and Colocation venue in mainland Europe. It is the seventh site in Europe for TNS with Basildon, LD4, Interxion and LSE in the UK. The announcement underpins TNS’ commitment to investing in its European infrastructure.

“Working with TNS will enable capital markets participants to improve the way they incorporate BME into their trading infrastructure,”…

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In the latest episode of Uptime with Data Center Knowledge, we look at the evolution of bare metal servers.

To find out more about the subject, we chat to bothers Jacob and Zachary Smith – co-founders of Packet, a bare metal hosting service that was acquired by data center giant Equinix in 2020, in a deal worth $335 million. Packet became the foundation of the new Equinix Metal business, led by Zac as its managing director, and Jacob – as the VP of bare metal strategy and marketing

Correction: Soon after we recorded this episode, Zac was promoted to head of edge infrastructure services at Equinix, and Jacob – to interim lead of the digital services…