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Happy Sysadmin Day! Cloudkick Developer plan: all features, 1 server, SMS alerts

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Re: Happy Sysadmin Day! Cloudkick Developer plan: all features, 1 server, SMS alerts

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Post by tomazmuraus »

phsr wrote: post #20

It's not available for chunkhost.com. I'd love to try it out on chunkhost

It looks like they just offer normal virtual servers with root access.

By looking at the supported OS images, you shouldn't have problems installing Cloudkick agent (https://support.cloudkick.com/Setting_up_Cloudkick_with_Phys...) on any of them.

Actually, the installation should be pretty simple, because we already offer pre-built packages for all of the systems currently supported at chunkhost - https://support.cloudkick.com/Agent/Installation.

If you do encounter a problem, feel free to stop at #cloudkick @ FreeNode and we will look into it.

Re: Happy Sysadmin Day! Cloudkick Developer plan: all features, 1 server, SMS alerts

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Post by uggedal »

AngryParsley wrote: post #4

Disclaimer: I work at Cloudkick In case there's any ambiguity, Cloudkick isn't giving a cloud server instance to everyone for free. The developer plan lets you monitor and manage one server for free. It has all the other features of paid accounts though: SMS alerts, custom plugins for monitoring, etc. I use it for my one EC2 instance that acts as my personal web server/IRC bouncer/VPN server/whatever.

I tried to add a cell number for getting SMS alerts. The "save and test notification" prompted me with "Notification sent!", but several minutes later I've yet to see a message.

Re: Happy Sysadmin Day! Cloudkick Developer plan: all features, 1 server, SMS alerts

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Post by [deleted] »

joe_bleau wrote: post #17
pquerna wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We confirmed it works in Opera 10 -- I got scary faces made at from the webdevs me when I suggested supporting Opera 9!

Strange. I'm on 10.50 and it's still 403. Updated to Opera 10.60: 403. Edit: nevermind, I got it to work. Must have had referrers turned off. I rarely see that cause a failure, so it wasn't on my normal checklist. Sorry for the noise!

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Re: Happy Sysadmin Day! Cloudkick Developer plan: all features, 1 server, SMS alerts

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Post by DanHulton »

joe_bleau wrote: post #11

Hmm. I just tried to sign up and get a 403: "CSRF verification failed. Request aborted."

I signed up in Opera 10.60, but couldn't get it to add my Linode instance. Had to do it in Firefox to get it to accept my API key.

Re: Happy Sysadmin Day! Cloudkick Developer plan: all features, 1 server, SMS alerts

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Post by mark_l_watson »

Really nice! I just signed up, and set up my sandbox EC2 quickly, and I find the feature set meets my needs. The free price to monitor my EC2 is great, and will likely pay off for Cloudkick when I recommend them to my customers (I always like it when customers use the same tools I use for my stuff - makes life easier.)

Re: Happy Sysadmin Day! Cloudkick Developer plan: all features, 1 server, SMS alerts

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Post by mark_l_watson »

thegyppo wrote: post #23

Would love to see a slightly smaller plan for 2-3 servers or a little more flexibility for those of us that don't have 6 servers...yet! :D

I agree, there are many of us who for our own use just have 2 or 3 servers. For customers/companies, the rates seem reasonable.

Re: Happy Sysadmin Day! Cloudkick Developer plan: all features, 1 server, SMS alerts

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Post by mark_l_watson »

rk655321 wrote: post #22

I was going to sign up but their terms and conditions -- especially number seven is a full stop for me three as well. They should really let you know.

To be clear: if they terminate your use of Cloudkick, your servers keep running - they just aren't being monitored anymore.
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