Tag Archives: Data

Hetzner Online, a data center based in Germany, said that using its hosting services for any application related to cryptocurrency mining is not permitted. The company disclosed its stance in a Reddit thread, saying that its ban on mining-related uses includes both Proof-of-Stake (PoS) and Proof-of-Work (PoW) applications.

The company’s stance on PoS applications could have serious implications on the Ethereum ecosystem, as 16.0% of Ethereum’s validator nodes are currently hosted on Hetzner’s servers.

Hetzner’s comments have been met with disapproval from the broader crypto community, with many criticizing the company for hosting cryptocurrency-related applications, including mining, for years without disclosing it in their terms of service.

Hetzner reveals the price of…

RESTON, Va.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Transaction Network Services (TNS) is now directly connected to the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) from within the JSE colocation facility, providing managed hosting services, Layer 1 order routing and market data connectivity.

TNS will serve as a vendor of record for South Africa’s principal stock exchange, offering JSE market data and order entry access to key equities and derivatives markets in Europe and the US.

“We are able to deliver market data to any location globally via our high availability backbone, minimizing network latency and packet loss,” said Jeff Mezger, TNS’ Vice President of Product Management.

“Combining JSE colocation with TNS’ low latency network enables our clients to directly access this additional…

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 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 in the world and the fourth to open in Europe. 

When choosing which data center to host your site out of, it’s best to choose a data center close to where the majority of your web traffic comes from. Because of that, the new data center will best serve people whose traffic mostly comes from Europe, in particular from Spain, Portugal, Andorra and…

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…