Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category

Major Storage Upgrade – Improved Speed and Stability

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.

FireHost Storage Speed IncreasesHere are a few highlights regarding our latest high performance storage environment:

  • 4X Increase in Speed and Performance
  • 300% increase in IOPS
  • 400% increase in throughput
  • 1250% increase in storage bandwidth
  • Initial writes sent directly to Solid State Drives (SSD)
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Take Your Speeds To The Next Level With FireHost SSD Storage & Load Balancers

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.

SSDFireHost 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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Secure Server Visibility Enhancements Launch Today. Hosting with More Transparency for You.

by FireHost Evangelist on September 14th, 2010

Effective today, all FireHost customers on Secure Servers virtualized with VMWare will have even more visibility into and control over your hosting environment. Now, you can see several, key performance indicators for each secure server individually and in real time:

  • How much storage space is being used.
  • How much memory is being used.
  • If you have enough processor power provisioned to meet your traffic flow and web application objectives.

In addition to viewing server resources, you can now reboot and shutdown/startup your Secure Server autonomously, without contacting our support engineers. This feature in particular gives Account Administrators and Technical Contacts the power to restart a server if it’s non-responsive for any reason and facilitate software upgrades on your own schedule.

With the enhancements live today, you can store custom comments and instructions for each Secure Server too. Customers can use this to communicate internally when several developers or technical administrators are present, and FireHost support engineers will be able to reference the instructions you enter any time they’re working on your environment.

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The End is Near! (for Dedicated Hosting)

by FireHost Evangelist on August 2nd, 2010

No More DedicatedEarlier this year, we introduced the Secure Server – a virtualized and secure, private hosting environment for companies and individuals who have the need to mitigate high traffic, high confidentiality, high availability, and compliance online.

Right away, many business owners, designers/developers, and IT professionals “got it” and signed up on the spot. We enjoy providing exemplary protection for our early adopters, but we won’t rest until the entire web hosting community understands that security, scalability, and affordability is for everyone, not just a select few.

Overall, the mission has been well received. As any “pioneer” would expect however, Secure Servers have been met with mixed reviews, particularly from die-hard dedicated hosting proponents.

In an effort admonish any remaining doubt from those who still have reservations about this new way, we created NoMoreDedicated.com. From here, you can:

  • Watch real stories from real people told in their own words and decide if dedicated hosting is the best solution.
  • Take our short, informative test to determine if dedicated hosting is right for your hosting needs.

Once you see the facts, we’re confident you’ll want to give Secure Servers a try, so we make it easy to do so.

  • Secure Servers can be provisioning within 24 hours of validating  your order, and
  • There is no lengthy hosting contract to which you must subscribe.

If you still have reservations, that’s fine. We respect your opinion and any doubts you may have about adopting a new way to protect your business. Even if you’re not ready to join the movement full stop, we request that you follow the movement that’s putting an end to overpriced, insecure, and inflexible dedicated hosting. Big change is on the horizon.

Follow: @NoMoreDedicated HashTag: #NMD

FireHost Named as a Stevie Award Finalist for “Best New Computer Product or Service for 2010″

by FireHost Evangelist on May 24th, 2010

FireHost has been named as a Top 5 Finalist in the category of Best New Computer Product or Service for 2010 by The American Business Awards (aka Stevie Awards).

Stevie Awards honor American companies and business people from organizations in a variety of industries. The other four nominees have useful, innovate, and very smart products and services that can significantly improve your e-life, so please check them out.

  • Data Robotics, Inc’s DroboElite Self-managing iSCSI SAN
  • DocuSign’s Mobile Extension enabling users to securely e-sign documents from more than two dozen mobile devices
  • Novell’s SUSE Studio for flexible and friendly Linux customization
  • Zebra Technologies ZXP Series 8 retransfer printer which produces photo-like images FAST

As you can see, we’ll need your help to out class this year’s very qualified competition. Please help us win by clicking the icon below.

We appreciate your endorsement. The winner will be announced in June.

The full list of finalists from all New Products and Product Management Categories for 2010 is listed on the Stevie Awards website.