« During the trial period, you cannot change firewall configuration. »
Please allow us to add in/out rules !
We're giving out free 1CPU, 2GB, 10GB SSD -servers, celebrating our launch.
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#32« During the trial period, you cannot change firewall configuration. » Please allow us to add in/out rules !
To enable the firewall - we ask users to deposit the 10 euro minimum to the account. This releases the limitations as a free server with no pre-configured firewall rules could increase abuse on the network substantially.
We hope this isn't too much of an inconvenience.
Thanks!
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks for the comment! As a small company, we can't give out machines/resources indefinitely so we need to have a cap on this. However, I do believe 100 euros towards a free server is a significant giveaway on our part and due to the nature of cloud computing, not everyone needs to host their services from here on onwards (think campaigns, etc.). Sad to have received the flag, but we're just trying to offer a server…
I can understand your motivation, maybe I just take issue with the wording. There's nothing wrong with offering a free trial. I just wouldn't call it a give-away. Edit: unflagged... Your terms sound good anyway :-)
Much appreciated - and if you like to reach me personally, you can e-mail me at antti.vilpponen@upcloud.com. :)
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#34Flagged as blatant advertising. 100€ is nothing, and I have to make the investment to work out how to use your cloud infrastructure. That investment (of time) is worth much more than 100€, so once the 100€ run out I will feel that I have invested so much already, it will be cheaper to keep using your service. I'm sorry, but that is not a give-away, it's just a bait. Btw. Google App Engine is currently "giving away" 1…
> Btw. Google App Engine is currently "giving away" 1000$ for startups if you register through some affiliate.
What's this now? I'd like some details, did they start a BizSpark like program?
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#35I had a problem with registration. My last name was treated as invalid value, so I went with ASCII version (without diactric). Same letter seems to work fine in first name, but to be consistent I used there only ASCII letters too in the end.
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#36Interesting. Good luck with the service!
Where can we read more about it? What technology are you using? Are you using any of the popular cloud platforms (openstack, cloudstack, opennebula etc)?
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#37From UpCloud's AUP: Intentional or careless use of the Services in excess of a typically expected server load, such as continuosly high CPU or I/O use rate.
Does this mean that uses cases like ZenCoder (video encoding "in the cloud") would not be allowed on UpCloud, since they would max out the CPU?
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks for the comment and initial feedback! Uptime and service is definitely something which is hard to do, but at the top of our list on things to focus. And as always with services like ours - we are in the business of trust, we need to earn it over time so we're not expecting miracles. Thanks for the localisation tips as well - much appreciated :)
One other thing I noticed - backups are attached to servers at present. What I would really like to be able to do is this: 1. Backup any server to a central store of backups 2. Set up new servers from those backups Having the backups attached to a server make them a little less useful (I assume they'll go away if you delete a server?). The above would let me have a known-good setup saved and ready to use and use that…
Thanks for the feedback!
Even though our control panel describes the backups as server dependant, backups are in their technical sense separate storage entities.
The downside is that our control panel doesn't currently allow the creation of new instances from backups (but you can naturally clone running or stopped instances - which many of our customers do). You can circumvent this through our API for the time being, which allows backups to be cloned to regular disks through the clone storage -function. We're adding this functionality to our control panel soon though.
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#39Interesting. Good luck with the service! Where can we read more about it? What technology are you using? Are you using any of the popular cloud platforms (openstack, cloudstack, opennebula etc)?
Thanks Nux! We're really excited :) Our technology is home grown, there's a lot of information on our site regarding the decisions we have made.
You can find the information here: http://en.upcloud.com/features
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#40I've put together a few very quick tests I carried out after the last story on here about Upcloud, you can see them here if you don't want to go through the hassle to just run some perf tests:
http://www.ewanleith.com/blog/1228/upcloud-cloud-iaas-perfor...
I think it's an interesting approach that they're taking, but they'll need to build out more services like load balancing, DNS, hosted databases and so on, before they can make a significant impact as a cloud service provider.