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Colocation Facility Open to New Customers Now

We're happy to announce that after roughly a month of allowing current customers to get redeployed, we have now starting accepting miners from new customers.

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Ravenna Live! Launch information and preparations

It's been a long road (vastly longer than expected), however, yesterday (March 24th) we received the go-ahead from our ...

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LightSpeed Ravenna Update 3

Hello LightSpeeders, 

We're coming down the wire on the expansion facility (pun intended).  This expansion has ran into several supply chain issues, vastly more than we could ...

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LightSpeed Facility Migration Has Begun

After many years of searching, planning and writing down all the things we would do different on a new facility, LightSpeed is ready to start the tedious process of migrating its existing 4 year ol...

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Take a peek into our cryptocurrency miner data center

Ever want to see what it looks like in a data center specifically designed for cryptocurrency miners?  Here's your chance!

The mining industry as a whole tends to operate different than...

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InnoSilicon S11 - Sia ASIC Crushes Competition

It was only a matter of time before other ASIC miner manufacturers come out with machines to compete with the Bitmain Joshua IN GENERAL ON

Now Accepting Cryptocurrency Payments Online

With the growing number of clients wanting to pay using cryptocurrencies, LightSpeed Hosting has teamed up with CoinPayments to offer online Cryptocurrency payments for all services. 

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Meltdown & Spectra Bugs Explained

Security vulnerabilities continue to make headlines, but these two are huge.  Here's what you need to know.

  • What the heck is it?: Intel Processors have ...

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Medina Counties Largest Data Center About to Open

Staging & Development Moved!

After 11 months, thousands of man hours and plenty of cash, LightSpeed Hosting, is just a few weeks away from opening.  The last week o...

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Data Center Build - Floor Epoxy

The finish work has begun.  In the server and electrical/UPS rooms we're going to be using an anti-static epoxy on the floor rather than raised floor.  This will allow us to cut costs, ru...

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Data Center Build - Exterior Infrastructure

The outdoor infrastructure is getting underway.  Outside we have a new transformer pad, generator and ATS (Automatic Transfer Switch) pad, along with new natural gas run from the main just for...

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Data Center Build - Electrical and Drywall Finished

Well folks, we're getting close now to really entering a phase where we can starting running high voltage, UPS, network conduit etc.  New doors are being hung, stained etc.

Along with f...

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Data Center Build - Construction Begins

It's official, we're done with the initial architecture phase and building of walls and mezzanine structure has begun.  The smaller room on the right will be our electrical and UPS room, and t...

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Data Center Build - Site Selection

January of this year, we decided on a bare warehouse as our starting point for our new data center.  We had a lot of important criterial.  Among the most important criteria we were lookin...

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