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Early birds, worms, and hardware prices in a time of turmoil

You know it’s bad when we start using words like “indicative”.

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How we're tackling the current hardware shortage crisis

We’ve experienced sudden spikes in hardware prices before. Our nimble supply chain means we've been able to keep our inventory well-stocked.

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RAM prices and Dedicated Servers

Our Dedicated Servers rely on RAM, and that RAM is getting harder to come by.

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High Performance success from very close to home

In which SiteHost discovers how fast SiteHost’s High Performance hardware can run SiteHost’s core backend API.

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AMD’s latest Ryzen CPUs - the 9000 series looks good to us

The newest Ryzen CPUs, the 9000 series, mark the debut of AMD’s Zen 5 architecture. Despite some underwhelming headlines we’re impressed with what we’ve seen.

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Hard drive history, 2007-2023: Hundreds of times faster, dozens of time bigger

How economic is it to run your own hardware rather than rent cloud services? A look at storage media shows how fast the maths is changing.

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Benchmarks show how fast our High Performance Virtual Servers are

Our new High Performance Virtual Servers (HPVS) deliver more than you get from the big international names, and we have the receipts.

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Dedicated CPUs over the years: There's improvement, and then there's this

A few hundred dollars a month is worth about 100x as much as it used it be.

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Clever companies are leaving the public cloud

We see bare metal improving faster than cloud services. Market analysts see a US$500B opportunity.

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