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by FireHost Evangelist on August 3rd, 2011
FireHost is honored to announce a partnership with the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA). FireHost will serve as a member on the CSA Advisory Council and will be working with the other CSA corporate members to support thought leadership and endorse best practices for providing secure cloud hosting environments.
Cloud security is a hot topic throughout the industry and the discussion is not complete without mentioning how the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) has been influential in ensuring major security issues are addressed and averted. Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), a non-profit organization formed to promote security in cloud computing and education on the uses of Cloud Computing to help secure all environments.
“FireHost’s deep experience in virtualized and secure hosting is a welcome expertise for The Cloud Security Alliance,” said Jim Reavis, executive director of the Cloud Security Alliance. “We’re confident FireHost will be an asset in helping the CSA continue to innovate in developing best practices for securing providers in the cloud.”
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Tags: cloud hosting, cloud security, cyber security, FireHost, PCI Compliant Hosting, Secure Cloud Hosting
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by FireHost Evangelist on July 24th, 2011
Need to protect your MySQL data at rest? No problem. FireHost has partnered with leading data encryption provider Gazzang to offer database encryption for customers with Gazzang’s ezNcrypt solution for LAMP stacks.
Here is how it works – encrypt databases and files “in place”, no longer is it necessary to re-architect databases, storage networks, or files. Seamless implementation, no coding, no application modification and no schema changes. ezNcrypt is transparent to users, applications, databases, and storage subsystems, by running above the file system as a logical volume. Select the level of detail you wish to administer and encrypt the entire database or only those tables that contain your sensitive data. You now have the option to secure and protect your MySQL log files and protect sensitive data that is often left open to vulnerabilities.
FireHost supports and manages the secure key management process for database encryption. Secure key management with ezNcrypt provides both dual authentication and high availability, ensuring the encryption key is never stored on the protected server’s file system.
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by FireHost Evangelist on June 7th, 2011
A little over a month ago, we announced the industry’s first PCI 2.0 compliant public Cloud Servers. Since then, we’ve focused whole-heartedly on ways to increase their performance.
Today, we happily announce SSD Storage & Zeus Powered Virtual Load Balancer add on features to you.
FireHost SSD Storage
Solid state drives (SSD) offer preferable I/O (input/output) rates and access times that you just can’t achieve with a traditional, disk based storage system. Database and web application response times can increase by up to 60%, improving your users’ experience. A new concept in cloud hosting, early adopters of SSD storage enjoy the following benefits:
- Enterprise-grade Dell EqualLogic SAN
- Higher IOPS with 1/4th the latency of a SAS solution
- Configured with RAID 50 Redundancy
- Daily Snapshots
- 30-Day Backup Retention
- Configure a secure cloud server
FireHost Load Balancers
New Load Balancers powered by Zeus Technologies replace traditional hardware versions, to provide high-availability with more flexibility. Equipped with 1GB RAM, 1 processor, and 10GB hard drive (standard), virtual load balancers allow businesses to more effectively predict future capacity by analyzing the comprehensive historical data and usage trends through a convenient web-based interface. Other great load balancer features include:
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Tags: cloud hosting, High Availability, load balancing, managed coud hosting, Secure Cloud Hosting, Website Security
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by FireHost Evangelist on April 26th, 2011
Security has arrived in the public cloud. With our latest service release announced today, Secure, Public Cloud Servers have now achieved PCI 2.0 Compliance.
The Origin
The latest PCI Data Security Standard announced in Q4 2010 addresses security and virtualization and all the controversy surrounding these two topics. As a participating member of the PCISSC, we decided to take the Council’s challenge head on by achieving PCI 2.0 compliance for ourselves and creating a secure, public cloud offering unlike anything else in the industry.
The Outcome
Secure Cloud Servers take the scalability and autonomy that makes public clouds so great a step further by providing:
- High availability for every customer
- Up to 8 processors
- Up to 84 GB RAM
- Unlimited storage available
- Managed backup snapshots with 14 day retention
- And more (of course)
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by FireHost Evangelist on April 9th, 2011
Last night FireHost transitioned our primary data center from a Tier 2 to a Tier 4 facility. Tier 4 facilities offer the highest reliability and redundancy for our network and for our customers. To ensure the move would happen as fast as possible, we developed a redundant network environment so that our move would only include the physical servers. Additionally, we used this relocation as an opportunity to upgrade our networking infrastructure in order to leverage the latest and greatest infrastructure. This was all tested and certified by our vendors.
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