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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.
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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:
- 50 Million blocked hack attempts to our customers websites and applications
- Launched the first ever PCI DSS 2.0 compliant public cloud hosting environment, which a significant number of our customers are now taking advantage of
- More than doubled our customers base, which include many Fortune 50 and Fortune 500 companies
- Completion of a $10 Million in Series B funding round to help our expansion into the global cloud hosting market
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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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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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Here are a few highlights regarding our latest high performance storage environment:
