--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Net Firebird <netfirebird@...> wrote:

>
> What are possible hosting providers that support Firebird? I have searched
> older blog posts about Azure and Amazon but have found that it has not been
> very smooth in the past. What is current situation? which VPS (Windows) or
> cloud provider could be used?

You can use any VPS that provides high IO instances
For example i can give the Amazon EC2 example (ubuntu) where you can choose the instances with SSD

This is an extreme example
http://mapopa.blogspot.ro/2013/01/one-way-to-scale-up-firebird-put-it-on.html

Another alternative is Hetzner
http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/news/ssd-festplatte