by FireHost Evangelist on December 15th, 2011
Do you need to adjust your server resources for an event tomorrow, next week, or next month? Expecting a spike in traffic, but just for a few days? Scaling resources up and down on your Secure Cloud Servers just got more convenient. We’re excited to announce that scheduled scaling is available today.
FireHost now offers three ways to adjust your cloud server resources through the customer portal.
- Manual Scaling: Resources can be adjusted up or down manually, anytime
- Auto Scaling: Usage thresholds can be set in advance that will automatically add resources to accommodate an increased load should an unexpected spike in activity occur
- NEW Scheduled Scaling: Resource adjustments, whether up or down, can be scheduled in advance to automatically occur on your predetermined days and times
“Startup Weekend is non-profit that is growing quickly in part because of recent media coverage. Every time we have a media hit we see a spike in traffic, which brings both rewards and technical challenges to our business. FireHost’s scheduled scaling feature helps us prepare for these events. Knowing we can schedule our servers to scale up when we need the resources, and back down when we don’t, is great peace of mind.” – Joey Pomerenke, CMO Startup Weekend
Login to MyFireHost.com today to see for yourself and enjoy the added convenience.
It’s our passion to provide the most secure, scalable, and high performance cloud hosting solution available. If you have any additional suggestions, requests, or questions feel free to call 877.262.3473 or open a ticket.
If you’re not a FireHost customer and want to know more about Secure Cloud Hosting, chat with us now or visit FireHost.com to learn more.
Tags: cloud server scaling, myfirehost, scale cloud servers
Posted in: Cloud Hosting, FireHost News
by FireHost Evangelist on December 9th, 2011
As we approach year’s end, we recount the milestones that our FireHost team has been able to accomplish thus far in 2011. Firstly, and above all else, it is our amazing customers that have made 2011 so great. We appreciate each and every one of you and look forward to our continued relationships as we move into 2012, a year that will undoubtedly put FireHost on the global map.
With team members this week covering the world from Le Web in Paris to the Mobile Health Summit in D.C. to Drupal on the Bayou in New Orleans we take this time to look back on the past 12 months. You can see a full recap in this press release, but here are the highlights:
Posted in: FireHost News
by FireHost Evangelist on November 30th, 2011
There isn’t much we can not do with our smartphones anymore, is there? Making mobile payments is no exception. There’s a coming wave of new apps and technologies that allow consumers to purchase everything through their phone, literally eliminating the need to carry an actual wallet (almost). FireHost senior security engineer Chris Hinkley wrote a guest article for SecurityWeek on the safety of mobile payments and PCI compliance implications.
You can check out the full article to learn more about why mobile payments are still vulnerable, how the PCI Security Standards Council is tackling the issue, and what the next year will bring for this popular consumer trend.
“There is vagueness around the safety of consumers’ credit card numbers when they are transmitted through mobile applications. A website that’s been modified for a mobile platform is presumably safer than an actual mobile application, making the latter considered not compliant according to the PCI DSS Council. If your business is working on a payment app to make transactions easier or more convenient for customers, you must consider this before deploying the app into the iPhone, Android, Blackberry or other marketplace.”
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Tags: Mobile Payment Security, PCI Compliance, PCI Compliant Hosting, PCI DSS
Posted in: Compliance, Security
by FireHost Evangelist on November 29th, 2011
Over the past year FireHost’s secure hosting environment has experienced tremendous growth as customers increasingly demand the scalability and control of the cloud in a secure hosting environment. In our effort to continually strive for industry-leading performance, we are excited to announce the official launch of our new enterprise Dell Compellent SAN + Brocade Fibre Channel storage platform. This new platform provides the highest level of stability and performance required by both our customers and ourselves.
Here are a few highlights regarding our latest high performance storage environment:
Tags: enterprise cloud hosting, enterprise storage platform, fibre channel storage, high performance storage, SAN storage
Posted in: Cloud Hosting, FireHost News, Technology
by FireHost Evangelist on September 23rd, 2011
Whether it’s a suggestion in a ticket, twitter, chat, email or a phone conversation, we’re constantly soliciting feedback and looking for ways to improve the secure hosting experience for you – our customer. Today, as a result of your great suggestions, several new features are live.
Below highlights some of the new additions we believe will provide greater convenience, transparency and control over your cloud hosting account, the very next time you login:
Faster, Easier Cloud Server & Account Management
Tags: FireHost, myfirehost, Secure Cloud Hosting, secure servers
Posted in: Cloud Hosting, FireHost News
