CloudatCost First Impressions
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Note that Windows is not included with the installation. You have to provide your own licensing. That's why there is no price increase for Windows instances like there is for all other cloud providers which include the license in the price. They all require a price premium per hour to cover the extra licensing cost.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Note that Windows is not included with the installation. You have to provide your own licensing. That's why there is no price increase for Windows instances like there is for all other cloud providers which include the license in the price. They all require a price premium per hour to cover the extra licensing cost.
I'm fine with that. I can cover the licensing, and if it saves me money to just use what I already have, I'm fine with that.
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Yes, you can just apply your existing license.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@g.jacobse said:
I have been going over the specs and the OS offereings and wondering what I would use one for.. Both personally and maybe at the office.
Anything that you need a hosted server for. Remote storage, ownCloud, back up AD, off site backups, web server, application server, etc.
Interesting.. This maybe what I am in need of for DR and existing remote users to start up AD and such....
Interested in another article? There's a topic.
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What of additional drive space . are you limited to the plan specs?
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Additionally - what of encryption / VPN.
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@scottalanmiller What are your ping times to various regions of the US? I want to stick a PBX on one of these as a trial.
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@g.jacobse said:
What of additional drive space . are you limited to the plan specs?
There are external storage options.
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@g.jacobse said:
Additionally - what of encryption / VPN.
Just install your own of either. That's not something that comes from your VPS host, you just install whatever software you want.
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@JaredBusch said:
@scottalanmiller What are your ping times to various regions of the US? I want to stick a PBX on one of these as a trial.
We plan to do that too.
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@JaredBusch said:
@scottalanmiller What are your ping times to various regions of the US? I want to stick a PBX on one of these as a trial.
Our primary web server is pinging between 4.5ms and 5.5ms. So that one is very good.
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Pretty consistent 20ms to the IAD Virginia datacenter.
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Not to thrilled that it appears that console access is over an open HTTP connection. Even worse, the connection specifically says it's unencrypted.
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My username and password that works for the console side of C@C does not work for members.cloudatcost.com
Anyone else have this problem?
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@scottalanmiller said:
The biggest factor here is that CloudatCost comes with console access!!
With the generous bandwidth package, that makes this a perfect platform for an SSH proxy.
Was gonna need one soon, but that ship is sailing away on a course to oblivion. Eh, at least I can have a nice little repository, PHP platform, or other things to get me up to speed.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Pretty consistent 20ms to the IAD Virginia datacenter.
Who are they peering with? For that price, I would have to expect this to be Cogent or some other el-cheapo bandwidth.
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@Dashrender said:
My username and password that works for the console side of C@C does not work for members.cloudatcost.com
Anyone else have this problem?
Console side? Do you mean your root login?
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@PSX_Defector said:
@scottalanmiller said:
The biggest factor here is that CloudatCost comes with console access!!
With the generous bandwidth package, that makes this a perfect platform for an SSH proxy.
Was gonna need one soon, but that ship is sailing away on a course to oblivion. Eh, at least I can have a nice little repository, PHP platform, or other things to get me up to speed.
That's the first thing that we built to test the platform. The Jump Station (aka SSH Proxy) was the first thing in.
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These are not CentOS minimal installs
this makes me sad.I am very much in the camp that all installs should start as minimal and server ops should be forced to add the things they need.
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@JaredBusch said:
These are not CentOS minimal installs
this makes me sad.I am very much in the camp that all installs should start as minimal and server ops should be forced to add the things they need.
Agreed, but this is our chance to give that feedback and maybe get that changed.
Having currently Ubuntu (14.10) would be good too.
