Considering purchasing – some more info needed

mikeone said 1 year, 4 months ago:

Hi,

I’m currently using Rackspace cloud – but I’m not entirely happy with that product. So I’m considering using Virtual Datacenter, but before I do – I’d like to ask some questions first:

1) Do the (Linux) templates already come with a LAMP stack or do I have to install things like Apache, mySQL, PHP and FTP myself?
2) Do the distros come with the ususal package installers (aptitude or similar?)
3) I read that a firewall is included – and that it is easy to setup a VPN. Is it also possible to restrict SSH to a VPN connection only?
4) Is it easy to setup separate instances for mySQL and Apache/PHP – i.e. to run the DB on a separate instance and connect internally? If so – how is performance if done so?

christianh said 1 year, 4 months ago:

@mikeone

1) There are templates with and without LAMP
2) This depends on which distribution you choose. Aptitude is a Debian package manager. A Debian-based distribution like Ubuntu (which is available on VDC) is going to use it. Red Hat-based distros like Fedora and CentOS will use yum.
3) The firewall rules allow or deny access on specific ports and forward them to the desired machine, if you want to restrict SSH further to a VPN connection only you are going to want to do something like this on the server itself through the server’s SSH/iptables configuration.
4) Yes, this is possible. The performance should be good.

–Christian

mikeone said 1 year, 4 months ago:

Thanks for your answers – no show stoppers so far so I’ll guess I’ll get myself one of those $1 deals

Thanks!

mikeone said 1 year, 4 months ago:

Ok, I’m setup – one more question though – in the VDC panel, if I look at the usage tab, it shows that additional GB outgoing BW are €0.12, while on the sales page (http://www.godaddy.com/hosting/cloud-computing.aspx?ci=45940, simple billing tab) – it shows €0.10/GB..

Why? What is the actual cost? this doesn’t seem much, but we expect a lot of traffic so 20% more that advertised is potentially a huge difference.

vincent said 1 year, 4 months ago:

There is a bug causing the control panel to get the USD price converted to Euros instead of the actual Euro price that’s been set.

The lower prices on the sales page (€0.10/GB for bandwidth) are correct and these are what you’ll actually be charged at the end of the month; we’re working on getting the displayed prices in the control panel corrected.

Thanks for trying VDC!

mikeone said 1 year, 4 months ago:

Cool, thanks for the additional info.

One more – I noticed that is a cap on the amount of outgoing emails. This is set to 1000/day which is more than enough in the begin period – however, suppose my application needs more outgoing emails at a later point, can this cap be upped easily? If so, any additional costs involved?

I wouldn’t want to get at a point where we choose this product for the live system – and find out that we can’t support more than 1000 signups a day as we have ran out of emails to sent..

vincent said 1 year, 4 months ago:

There are default limits on how much of each resource an account is allowed to use. You can see what your limits are by going to the Usage Tab of the control panel and clicking the “Prices and Limits” button on the right side of the page.

Any of the limits can be increased by just sending in a support ticket. There is no cost for increasing a limit, and also no cost for outgoing emails. Of course for things like storage and compute that do have a cost, you would pay for any additional resources you used.