Posts Tagged ‘secure servers’

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 like @The_Fenix_X, 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.

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The Power of Dedicated Servers. The Scalability of Cloud Hosting. The Result – One Secure Server.

by FireHost Evangelist on March 16th, 2010

FireHost Secure ServersFireHost believes every business is entitled to protection from malicious hacker schemes. This mantra resonates in every decision we make and drives the daily activities for each and every agent of our organization.

We constantly strive to make enterprise-grade hosting features available for companies of all sizes, and VMWare’s vShield™ capabilities (introduced last summer) have helped fulfill our mission. vShield™ marks a significant advance in virtualization technology by providing a “shared [multi-tenant] computing resource pool, while still maintaining trust and network segmentation of users and sensitive data.”

We quickly realized adding vShield™ to our secure hosting infrastructure would make it possible to package the power and privacy of dedicated servers with cloud-like scalability, and our technology staff has worked tirelessly since the announcement to devise the right solution.

The result of their hard work is an affordable, compliance-ready Secure Server with all the tools necessary to protect your customers’ personally identifiable information (PII) and payment card information from hackers without hiring your own internal IT security staff.

Our new offering combines the best features of Dedicated and Cloud hosting into one, affordable Secure Server. This service is new to the hosting marketplace and unique to FireHost, so we’ve made it easy to compare how our Secure Servers stack up against popular options. “When security and affordability are key factors in your consideration set, we make it an easy decision,” said Chris Drake, CEO and founder.

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