FireHost Web Hosting Adds SSD And Load Balancing To Cloud Hosting

Greatresponder.com – 2011-06-08 – Web hosting company FireHost installed new solid drive storage and virtual load balancing designed for secure cloud environments.

Since the beginning of April, FireHost web hosting launched its PCI DSS compliant secure public cloud.

Referring to the press release, the new cloud enhancements deliver better performance, shorter load times and increase reliability.

FireHost says that new drives enable faster server performance and increased performance of the entire Web application. The new SSDs also provides better I/O rates and access times to traditional SATA and SAS disk-based systems.

FireHost use Zeus technology in its public cloud.

Here is how Kosten Metreweli, chief strategy officer at Zeus commenting new enhancements of FireHost:

“We admire companies like FireHost who see how important performance and control are to their end users. By implementing our solutions into their public cloud offering, FireHost is showing that it’s serious about delivering a premium cloud hosting service, and is committed to giving customers control options that put them in the driver’s seat. We’re excited to be FireHost’s vendor of choice for Virtual Load Balancers.”

FireHost says its virtual load balancers are equipped with 1GB ram, 1 single core processor and 10GB hard drive, but are scalable, so customers can manage any virtual load balancer instance.

Month ago, data recovery company 24 Hour Data announced that it had successfully recovered managed hosting provider FireHost’s data after the company experienced RAID server failure. Prior to this, FireHost moved to a new security-focused office space.

FireHost offering web hosting service since 2006 and known as one of the most reliable company in terms of data storage security.

FireHost Web Hosting Adds SSD And Load Balancing To Cloud Hosting

Web Hosting Alentus Offer Cloud Backup Platform

Greatresponder.com – 2011-06-29 – Web hosting company Alentus announced few days ago it has partnered with NovaStor technologies to provide customers with very advanced cloud backup platform solution.

According to the Alentus web hosting company press release, new backup platform features 30 times faster data transfers for all customers.

New business class cloud storage and cloud backup service solution – SecureStor, will enable all clients to protect and restore important cloud stored data in an efficient and extremely reliable process.

Alentus web hosting company will work with clients for the continuous improvement and update of these services, assuring all users that their data is safely stored and backed up.

The backup service isn’t default option and it starts from $14.95 per month and varies depending on data storage size requirements.

SecureStor technology solution helps businesses of all sizes with its online storage and cloud backup needs.

“We are pleased to team up with NovaStor to offer SecureStor, our online storage and backup service that ensures safe and reliable data storage and protection for our customers,” said William King, CEO of Alentus company. “Through impressive innovation including the fastest cloud backup platform technology to date, the new solution makes data transfer time during cloud backup 30 times faster than the previous version. We believe SecureStor will further enhance our service offerings to our diverse global customer base. In addition, this service is hosted in a separate data center from our standard hosting datacenter as we had requests from many existing customers for such an ‘off-site’ data location for disaster recovery purposes. About 80 customers have already implemented this prior to this public launch.”

Alentus web hosting company provides Windows based web hosting solutions, SharePoint web hosting, SQL web hosting, and Microsoft Exchange web hosting services to thousands of small to medium sized companies and customized services for larger organizations and private businesses.

Web Hosting Alentus Offer Cloud Backup Platform

Go Daddy Web Hosting Issued Over 500,000 SSL Certificates

Greatresponder.com – 2011-06-08 – Go Daddy one of the biggest domain registrar and Web hosting company that also sells SSL certificates and other products announced on Monday that it now protects over 500,000 websites with its branded SSL certificates.

 

According to the press release, Go Daddy was top SSL provider during May. During May Go Daddy company sold over branded SSL certificates 13,000.

Go Daddy provides various SSL certificates with different specs including digital seal. Additionally Go Daddy has serious advantage comparing to other SSL providers.

Go Daddy SSL certificates comes with unlimited server license. It means that companies can purchase a single certificate for their entire infrastructure. As result it could save some money.

All of Go Daddy’s SSL certificates provide visitors to a website visual assurance through the https prefix and padlock icon on a browser. EV SSL certificates also provide a green address bar.

Additionally it worth to note, that last week domain registry .CO Internet announced that Go Daddy had registered the one millionth .CO domain.

Commenting company achievement, Go Daddy CEO and Founder Bob Parsons said:

“While it is significant that Go Daddy has issued more than a half-million SSL certificates, there are still too many people being ‘taken to the cleaners’ by other providers who charge their ridiculously high prices. In this economy, businesses need to be looking for the best possible value. Think about it, Go Daddy customers receive an identical SSL product as competitors, but with outstanding customer service and for up to 15 times less the cost … now that can make a difference.”

Go Daddy Web Hosting Issued Over 500,000 SSL Certificates