GridVirt.com, who is quickly becoming known for their high performance SSD VPS offerings, has stepped their service offering up to the next level and now offers full SSD (Solid State Drive) Cloud service, domains, SSL, and Managed DNS service. A new East Coast location is available and free migrations are available from their West Coast Servers to their East Coast Cloud Infrastructure.
GridVirt.com is an Industry leader in IO intensive VPS offerings. While they are little known at this point they are starting to make waves in the community with their extreme performance. Their base plan the "1 Node" averages 900MB/sec sequential throughput, and 100K+ random R/W IOPS. This makes their Windows VPS and Linux VPS the highest performance to price ratio in the Industry today. When asked what prompted the move to offer Cloud based VPS, Seann Gearhart, Co-Owner and President of GridVirt Inc. had this to say, "The primary reason for the switch to the Cloud interface was to allow our customers to utilize the provided resources in a way that fits their needs best. Some customers only need 1 large VPS others need multiple VMs with specific resource allotments. One prime example being large web clusters with separate web, database, and DNS servers. They can scale CPU and RAM resources and even move CPU and RAM resources around to the server that needs it most. When a customer runs out of resources they can upgrade to the next Node (resource package) instantly. This allows them to add more resources to existing servers or create additional servers within their private cloud on demand. The only down side to local fast SSD storage is that once provisioned with a server it can’t be upgraded or downgraded. That is the reason we provide an expandable NAS service. If a customer needs additional non I/O intensive storage space they can add it to any server within their cloud at any time."
GridVirt uses strictly KVM Virtualization in their VPS Cloud. KVM while not well known to the consumer is quickly gaining recognition for its true hardware paravirtualization and better isolation of resources compared to OpenVZ and Xen. GridVirt's cloud is purely SSD (Solid State Drive). "Both myself and Seann believe that SSD based Cloud hosting is the way of the future and we have put everything into this belief", says Co-Owner and COO Lorne Wanamaker. There are very few purely SSD based Cloud services out there at this time and they are gaining popularity with users that need serious IO performance. When asked about GridVirt's extreme cloud performance and how they managed to get to the top Lorne said "We worked hard for almost a year testing different combinations of hardware and software before we came up with the "secret sauce". That’s about all you will get out of me on that subject!”
Cloud hosting is continually gaining more support with more and more hosting companies making the switch. The increased flexibility, power, and redundancy are hard to ignore. More consumers are letting go of their shared hosting, and regular VPS to get in the cloud. Many are even dumping there dedicated servers in favor of Cloud hosting. When you buy VPS hosting today there really is no reason not to go with a cloud based provider.
"We are happy, at the same time as this move "Into The Cloud", to also offer our customers SSL, Domains, and Managed DNS Services (free up to 20 domains), and a new East Coast Location. This is an exciting time for GridVirt", says Lorne Wanamaker. GridVirt's new East Coast location is the State Of The Art DuPont Fabros NJ1 top tier SAS 70 Type II audited Piscataway, New Jersey facility. This Data Center is considered by many to be the best connected datacenter on the East Coast. "We knew people in Europe were really wanting a service like ours (SSD) and received many requests for an East Coast location and this is our answer", says Lorne Wanamaker.
GridVirt Inc. is a Michigan registered Corporation (2010) that prides itself on offering only the highest quality of service. Owners Lorne Wanamaker and Seann Gearhart bring 20 years of experience in the hosting industry to the table and are applying every shred of it to GridVirt Inc. GridVirt has jumped in to cover the small niche of "IO Intense Hosting" and is carving out their spot quickly. You can expect to hear more about GridVirt Inc. in the months to come.
GridVirt.com is an Industry leader in IO intensive VPS offerings. While they are little known at this point they are starting to make waves in the community with their extreme performance. Their base plan the "1 Node" averages 900MB/sec sequential throughput, and 100K+ random R/W IOPS. This makes their Windows VPS and Linux VPS the highest performance to price ratio in the Industry today. When asked what prompted the move to offer Cloud based VPS, Seann Gearhart, Co-Owner and President of GridVirt Inc. had this to say, "The primary reason for the switch to the Cloud interface was to allow our customers to utilize the provided resources in a way that fits their needs best. Some customers only need 1 large VPS others need multiple VMs with specific resource allotments. One prime example being large web clusters with separate web, database, and DNS servers. They can scale CPU and RAM resources and even move CPU and RAM resources around to the server that needs it most. When a customer runs out of resources they can upgrade to the next Node (resource package) instantly. This allows them to add more resources to existing servers or create additional servers within their private cloud on demand. The only down side to local fast SSD storage is that once provisioned with a server it can’t be upgraded or downgraded. That is the reason we provide an expandable NAS service. If a customer needs additional non I/O intensive storage space they can add it to any server within their cloud at any time."
GridVirt uses strictly KVM Virtualization in their VPS Cloud. KVM while not well known to the consumer is quickly gaining recognition for its true hardware paravirtualization and better isolation of resources compared to OpenVZ and Xen. GridVirt's cloud is purely SSD (Solid State Drive). "Both myself and Seann believe that SSD based Cloud hosting is the way of the future and we have put everything into this belief", says Co-Owner and COO Lorne Wanamaker. There are very few purely SSD based Cloud services out there at this time and they are gaining popularity with users that need serious IO performance. When asked about GridVirt's extreme cloud performance and how they managed to get to the top Lorne said "We worked hard for almost a year testing different combinations of hardware and software before we came up with the "secret sauce". That’s about all you will get out of me on that subject!”
Cloud hosting is continually gaining more support with more and more hosting companies making the switch. The increased flexibility, power, and redundancy are hard to ignore. More consumers are letting go of their shared hosting, and regular VPS to get in the cloud. Many are even dumping there dedicated servers in favor of Cloud hosting. When you buy VPS hosting today there really is no reason not to go with a cloud based provider.
"We are happy, at the same time as this move "Into The Cloud", to also offer our customers SSL, Domains, and Managed DNS Services (free up to 20 domains), and a new East Coast Location. This is an exciting time for GridVirt", says Lorne Wanamaker. GridVirt's new East Coast location is the State Of The Art DuPont Fabros NJ1 top tier SAS 70 Type II audited Piscataway, New Jersey facility. This Data Center is considered by many to be the best connected datacenter on the East Coast. "We knew people in Europe were really wanting a service like ours (SSD) and received many requests for an East Coast location and this is our answer", says Lorne Wanamaker.
GridVirt Inc. is a Michigan registered Corporation (2010) that prides itself on offering only the highest quality of service. Owners Lorne Wanamaker and Seann Gearhart bring 20 years of experience in the hosting industry to the table and are applying every shred of it to GridVirt Inc. GridVirt has jumped in to cover the small niche of "IO Intense Hosting" and is carving out their spot quickly. You can expect to hear more about GridVirt Inc. in the months to come.
