CloudatCost end of Life
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@68biscayne said:
As to wondows license, a little digging and it turns out they can give you a 90 access when first created, after that you are on your own (saw something on the site where they declare they don't provide a license. Just wondering if it's possible for people to purchase a key from Microsoft to use.
Yup, they do. And no, you can't.
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Here you go, we wrote it up because they kept burying this info:
http://mangolassi.it/topic/4842/why-you-cannot-effectively-run-windows-on-cloudatcost
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@68biscayne said:
I don't use it for any development or heavy use. Don't know if my brother made any changes. He did however have me install it as a CentOS instead of their templated version. I can only assume he loaded a copy of his own.
For straight development it mostly works. The IO issues won't plague you in most cases. It was not sold as a development system here, they made a HUGE deal about it being production ready. Only after it was production ready did they change that wording to hide it. We captured in some of those threads where they had been telling us it was production and where they had production in their big online marketing campaigns because they were trying to bury that too after it was shown that their systems were useless for production.
They proved to be so slow that even lab use didn't work for many of us.
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CloudAtCost has completely revoked their "free for life" products that people have already paid for in full and is now simply charging for them - even ones that customers already own. Customers are now being extorted to pay annually for something they were sold specifically so that they would not have to pay for in this way. The service is no longer a scam on the technical level, it is now a full scam on the billing and marketing level as well.
https://mangolassi.it/topic/14009/cloudatcost-turning-to-extortion
