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Instant Server - Click the button to get a virtual private server

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Re: Instant Server - Click the button to get a virtual private server

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Post by bifrost »

FriedPickles wrote: post #20
gibybo wrote: post #10

The CAPTCHA really cramps your 'instant' style :( It would be great if it had more convenient ways of preventing abuse. Perhaps look at IP/current server load/user agent patterns/etc to give most people the benefit of the doubt, and only fall back to a CAPTCHA in edge cases? Thinking about it more, just using an easier CAPTCHA would go along way to making it more user friendly. ReCaptha is hard. It usually takes me 2…

I'm the creator. I didn't want to use a captcha, but had to put one on with all the demand. I'll switch to an easier one, if anyone has any other ideas let me know! Requiring signing in with a google account would also stop abuse, but that seems equally annoying.

I don't use google, so yeah, that would stop me :)

Re: Instant Server - Click the button to get a virtual private server

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Post by pavs »

zackmorris wrote: post #16

This is brilliant. I'm flabbergasted why every single virtual server I've ever tried has had some gotcha that made it agonizing. Why is it so hard to have one-click templates that give you a server that can run 90% of what a user needs, say apache/php/ruby/node/mysql/postgresql/ssh with cpanel (or equivalent), already installed and set up "the right way" so you can easily add domains? I know the reasons why this hasn…

>I know the reasons why this hasn't happened, but I don't care. I want to know the real reason it hasn't happened, and I think it has a lot to do with every problem looking like a nail.

That doesn't even make any sense.

Hosting services are generally not for mom and pop to start a vps on demand. For that kind of cookie cutter service, they have something called shared hosting, and its already plenty easy and has more or less what you are asking for.

If a developer can't spend couple of hours (even less unless you are a beginner) learning their way around setting up a server, it just a disaster waiting to happen.

There are time and place for cookie-cutter services, vps is not it.

Re: Instant Server - Click the button to get a virtual private server

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Post by cmircea »

Jleagle wrote: post #15
sciurus wrote: post #13

One big question I don't see answered- why are they providing this service?

Because you can pay to get longer sessions?

Why should I use this over DigitalOcean? One hour on the smallest VPS is .7 of a cent. Bonus: SSD.

Re: Instant Server - Click the button to get a virtual private server

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Post by kodablah »

zackmorris wrote: post #16

This is brilliant. I'm flabbergasted why every single virtual server I've ever tried has had some gotcha that made it agonizing. Why is it so hard to have one-click templates that give you a server that can run 90% of what a user needs, say apache/php/ruby/node/mysql/postgresql/ssh with cpanel (or equivalent), already installed and set up "the right way" so you can easily add domains? I know the reasons why this hasn…

Abuse abuse abuse. If I can spinup 35 minute servers for bad things, how do you keep me from doing it again without tying in billing information?

Re: Instant Server - Click the button to get a virtual private server

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Post by OliC »

VaucGiaps wrote: post #44
OliC wrote: post #4

You should add a "kill it" button so I can easily free up the server if I finish playing with it before the ~30 minutes is up.

shutdown -h now?

Sure, but a button would still be a nice touch. I closed my connection before shutting the server down. I hoped there would be a "kill it" button on the page but there wasn't so I had to reconnect before I could shut it down. Hardly a great effort but some people might not bother.

Re: Instant Server - Click the button to get a virtual private server

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Post by dpe82 »

vonskippy wrote: post #26

Once you have an account with Linode, spinning up another node is quick and painless, and with way more options. Plus they're up front with their billing - I need to send in a question and wait for a email response on how much it will cost to keep it longer then 30 minutes? I'll pass. His concept is to SAVE TIME, yet with all the missing details, it will end up costing more time (and probably money) then it's worth.

Or DigitalOcean. Usually about 30 seconds for an instance to spin up.
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