The HostCube Blog


  • January 19th, 2012

    WordPress Optimization Tips

    Any dynamic CMS application like WordPress can be a bear to maintain, and strain your server hardware. WordPress, and it’s many plugins available, can make your website slow down to a crawl. Fortunately we have years of experience with WordPress and high volume traffic. We have some great tips to help optimize your WordPress. A [...]

  • January 17th, 2012

    CentOS 6 Now Available

    We are proud to announce CentOS 6 is formally available within HostCube’s Cloud. We’ve been beta testing CentOS 6.2 for a while internally, and ready to release the software within our network. We’ve already been supporting CentOS 6 with managed cloud service for awhile now. For the details, please read the release notes: CentOS 6.0 [...]

  • January 17th, 2012

    CentOS 5 Upgraded to 5.7

    CentOS 5 has been upgraded to CentOS 5.7, and is available for all new managed VPS orders. Release Notes can be found here: http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS5.7/ Customers who are currently have a CentOS 5 instance has been automatically upgraded.

  • April 18th, 2011

    CentOS 5.6 Now Available

    CentOS 5 has been upgraded to CentOS 5.6 and is available for all new managed VPS orders. Release Notes can be found here: http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS5.6/

  • April 4th, 2011

    Price Drop for Additional Disk space

    Price Drop: Additional HostCube disk space per GB (includes 2 GB backup space) is now $1.00/month. This is when you need additional disk space outside of our normal hosting plans. For more information see our managed VPS web page.

  • November 19th, 2009

    Twitter account @empoweringmedia

    Hi All, Long time no post.  We had a Twitter account: @empoweringmedia for over a year, but did not formally announce this. Stay tuned for more updates.

  • December 6th, 2008

    Reasons why autoscaling doesn’t work

    Great article on why autoscaling does not work. http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2008/12/why-i-dont-like-cloud-auto-scaling.html

  • August 15th, 2008

    Managed VPS Hosting vs In-House Servers

    Quick review of the total cost of ownership of in-house servers vs managed VPS.

  • August 14th, 2008

    Security For Your Managed Virtual Server

    Hackers are searching the Internet for insecure sites. Are you next?

  • August 12th, 2008

    VPS space in Data center #2

    We now have room in data center #2.