
Firehost Enhances Transparency Over Their Performance
Firehost, one of the managed hosting providers focussing more on security, today announced enhanced visibility and control for their customers on their servers. Yes, this is a cloud blog and Firehost is not a cloud provider per se. However, there are certain use cases for which Cloud is not 100% ready yet. One such scenario […]

It’s About Focus – SMBs, SaaS, Knitting and Dogfood
Awhile ago I posted a bit of a rant about an experience one of my businesses was having with a particular ISP who didn’t seem to understand the concept of customer service. Briefly I told the sorry tale of woe that we experienced with our site hosted on a traditional ISPs VPS offering. I got […]

StrataScale – Hosting for the Edge Cases
There’s quite a divide between traditional hosting in physical servers and the somewhat ethereal (actually completely ethereal) concept of cloud hosting. Into this breech walks StrataScale. StrataScale call themselves the first fully managed server hosting solution – that’s physical servers, not virtual ones. In an answer to many peoples concerns around virtualization and cloud storage, […]