Here 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)

What does this mean for you?

• Peace of mind – an even more stable and high performance secure hosting environment
• No additional costs associated with this upgrade
• No downtime during migration to the new storage environment
• New features including more options for file level restores and storage based Disaster Recovery are coming soon

Migrations are currently underway and all secure cloud customers will automatically be upgraded before the end of the year. It’s our passion to provide the most secure, scalable, and high performance cloud hosting solution available. If you have any questions about the storage platform upgrade, please call 877.262.3473 or open a ticket in our secure customer portal.

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:

• Real Time Scalability
• Session Persistence
• Clustering
• Content Based Routing
• Health Monitoring
• Learn more about load balancers

It’s our passion to provide the most secure, scalable, and high performance cloud hosting solution available. We strive to stay on the forefront of technology, to better serve you everyday, and we hope you enjoy these new features.

FireHost lets businesses combine SSD storage and virtual load balancers, to achieve a level of performance unmatched in the cloud hosting space. To add SSD storage and load balancers to your secure cloud servers, contact us via ticket, live chat or call 877-262-3473.

• 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.

Chris Drake, CEO and founder of FireHost sheds some light on how the new functionality meets our objectives. “We broke from the managed hosting tradition when we posted pricing on our website. In the spirit of total transparency, we’re now letting clients see their hosting resources. Even more importantly, we’re giving them the power to control their Secure Server on the fly. We believe customers should see their actual usage over time and reboot when they want, so they can make decisions to scale up or scale back their hosting as needed.”

This latest MyFireHost enhancement (live today) advances our goal of total transparency for our customers. The next time you login to MyFireHost, you will have access to the new features and functionality.

If you have a suggestion or would like to provide feedback on the customer portal, please relay it to us using this short survey. http://bit.ly/aqAy05

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

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.