Cloud hosting provider ElasticHosts announced on Wednesday that it has improved its user interface, as well as introduced Solid State Drives at all server instance sizes.
Customers with high I/O applications and heavy databases will be able to provision SSDs to offer a higher level of performance. SSDs allow data to be accessed up to 250 times faster than standard hard disk drives, according to ElasticHosts.
Previously, ElasticHosts only offered cloud servers backed by traditional hard disk drives. Its new SSD options are available in its London Portsmouth zone and will roll out across its data centers in the UK, US and Canada.
Database storage and transaction processing are two examples of I/O intensive workloads that require speed and performance. More cloud providers and hosting companies are introducing SSDs to provide higher I/O rates to customers. It has become an increasingly popular technology for cloud providers to offer performance as a value-add for customers.
ElasticHosts customers can now choose to include SSDs as part of their cloud hosting package and get improved performance on a flexible, pay-as-you-go basis. SSD options are available to customers regardless of the amount of resources they use.
“We are pleased to offer the option of cloud hosting based on SSD drives to all of our customers,” Richard Davies, CEO of ElasticHosts said in a statement. “While HDDs are fine in most cases, in certain instances customers need greater performance. The SSD options will be particularly attractive to those customers looking to move high performance databases to a cloud based infrastructure-as-a-service model. As the cloud market matures, offering SSD is the next step for us. Some cloud providers have offered SSD with only their largest, most expensive server instance sizes, but we believe that all of our customers should be offered the benefits of improved computing power and greater resiliency.”
As for the updated user interface, ElasticHosts says it has simplified management of large accounts and improved response times. Advanced Ajax functionality means that customers can see changes made to their virtual servers in real time.
At the beginning of July, ElasticHosts launched its new white-label cloud program.
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Source : http://www.thewhir.com/web-hosting-news/cloud-host-elastichosts-offers-ssds-at-all-server-instance-sizes
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