Archive for the ‘Cloud Hosting’ Category
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
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Tags: cloud server scaling, myfirehost, scale cloud servers
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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
- Condensed, sortable and searchable server, ticket and user list view
- Efficient management of servers, tickets and users directly from the list
- Quick visibility into each cloud servers performance and threat level
- Custom tagging for faster, more granular identification
- Data Center location displayed for each cloud server
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Tags: FireHost, myfirehost, Secure Cloud Hosting, secure servers
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by FireHost Evangelist on September 13th, 2011
Today, we proudly announce that our Series B round of funding has closed. The investment, led by The Stephens Group as well as earlier angel investors, will fuel investments in growth and infrastructure and enable us to make the company mission of becoming the global provider of secure hosting in the cloud a reality. See the official press release for more details.
“This capital investment represents a huge vote of confidence in our secure hosting solutions for SMEs and our ever-growing enterprise customer base, including several Fortune 50 and many Fortune 500 companies,” said Chris Drake, FireHost founder and CEO.
Looking Back
Since day one, our goal has been simple – provide the most secure hosting solution available to businesses of all sizes. Not an easy task, but with a security-minded ethos and dedication to customer support, we’ve met the challenge and opportunity with brute force.
We’ve experienced triple-digit customer growth year-over-year and successfully secured tens of thousands of web applications in the process. Within the last eight months, we’ve made numerous improvements to our MyFireHost customer portal, including Security View, and the gratifying initiative of launching the industry’s first PCI-DSS 2.0 compliant public cloud. Strangely enough, we believe this merely scratches the surface of our capabilities.
Looking Ahead
This infusion of capital enables us to continue investing in secure infrastructure, increasing our market share in the hosting space, and focus on delivering exceptional security to our customers.
In the coming months, you can look forward to improved:
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Tags: cloud hosting, PCI Compliant Hosting, Secure Cloud Hosting, secure managed hosting, Website Hosting
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by FireHost Evangelist on July 28th, 2011
Some would argue that online security has changed for the worse. As open source Web applications become popular within businesses, they have also become appealing to hackers.
As more company websites run on open source applications like Drupal and with corporate blogs powered by WordPress, more victims may suffer from hacks and costly exploits. Learning jQuery learned this lesson the hard way. Before they took a serious look at hardening the open source platform, embarrassing and costly attacks wrought havoc. Other companies that haven’t taken proper precautions to insulate themselves against such threats could face the same fate.
We’ll highlight some security issues that open source Web applications pose and propose solutions if you’ve considered making open source applications part of your business.
Common vulnerabilities in open source Web applications
Like you, hackers love that open source Web applications are free and provide easy access given their “open” source code. If, for example, a hacker can deploy a script to steal information or take control of a Web application on a single piece of hardware, he can easily reproduce these devastating results to affect multiple users or multiple websites that share the same code base. Here’s why:
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Tags: Drupal Hosting, open source hosting solutions, protect open source applications, WordPress Security
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Here are a few highlights regarding our latest high performance storage environment:
