| London, 5th September, 2012: ElasticHosts, the cloud hosting provider, has today announced significant enhancements to its core cloud server offering. The changes will see customers benefit from an improved user interface, whilst also being able to provision Solid State Drives at all server instance sizes, offering a higher level of performance for high I/O applications and heavy database uses that were previously considered unsuitable for public cloud environments. Previously, ElasticHosts offered cloud servers backed by traditional spinning Hard Disk Drives (HDD). ElasticHosts has now expanded its offering to include hosting on high performance Solid State Drives (SSD), offering customers more choice and flexibility in running large websites and complex applications. The new SSD options are available today in ElasticHosts’ London Portsmouth zone and will roll out rapidly across the company’s data centres in UK, US and Canada. The performance benefits of SSD hosting are game changing for customers with high I/O applications and databases. SSDs offer tens of thousands of random read/write input/output operations per second (IOPs) compared to hundreds of IOPs for HDDs. This means that SSDs allow data to be accessed around 250 times faster than with standard hard drives, meaning latency is virtually imperceptible, servers and applications [...] | |
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