THE VPS CLOUD BLOG

New Feature: Custom Templates Images (or duplicate current VPS)

Posted on August 24, 2009 by NullMind

VPS.NET has just deployed a much requested feature “Custom Templates”.

This feature allows users to create their own deployable Template Images, it can also be used to duplicate a current VPS, here is how the process looks

On Your VPS overview, make sure you have backups enabled, and select the backups tab:
vpsnet1 New Feature: Custom Templates Images (or duplicate current VPS)

On the backup tab, select to create a “new backup”, after then option to “convert to template” will appear:
vpsnet 1 New Feature: Custom Templates Images (or duplicate current VPS)

The Image creation process will start, until it’s done you wont be able to generate new VM’s using the new image, it can take around 15 minutes for the process to complete for a 1GB image (actual storage size in use):
vpsnet 2 New Feature: Custom Templates Images (or duplicate current VPS)

Meanwhile, you can edit the template (under managed VPSs -> Manage Custom Templates) and Edit it with your own description and Extra info:
vpsnet 3 New Feature: Custom Templates Images (or duplicate current VPS)

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Once the template has been successfully created, you are then able to deploy it over and over again, or use it to replicate your current VM:
vpsnet 5 New Feature: Custom Templates Images (or duplicate current VPS)

In the near future we will introduce the ability for users to download/upload these templates (for local testing and modifications), and migrate/copy them to another Cloud, also at the moment all accounts are limited to 1 FREE custom template slot, the ability to purchase additional slots will also be added soon.

What exactly is a template ?

A template means your image can be deployed by the VPS.NET provisioning system, a new IP, Hostname and root password will be assigned during the provisioning system, just like our standard images do.

Also, please notice the template is not linked to the original VPS, deleting or modifying the original VPS source will not affect the template.

Enjoy

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New Feature: Scheduled Bursts

Posted on April 14, 2009 by NullMind

Today we have launched a new featured for VPS.NET, “Scheduled Bursts”

With this new feature, you are now able to schedule a burst of nodes to your VPS for when you need it, and only pay for those nodes on a daily rate of $1 (£1 in UK) per node.

So how does it work ?, simple on your VPS view you now have this new Tab:

schedule New Feature: Scheduled Bursts

Inside it you are able to schedule a “Burst” of nodes for that VPS, there are 2 kinds of bursts, “temporary” and “permanent”

On temporary you can select to add a number of nodes to your VPS at a certain date and time and keep it there for a determined period of days, with this choice, you are charged $1 USD / £1 GBP per day per node you are using extra, at the end of the period those nodes will simply go away.

On permanent, you can schedule your VPS to be upgraded to a certain number of nodes, the nodes will be permanently added to your account and assigned to the VPS, you can at a later date remove them if you wish, those nodes are charged at the standard monthly rates.

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Once assigned you are able to quickly view upcoming scheduled upgrades, you can also remove any scheduled upgrades before they occur and not be charged for it, charing only happens when the upgrade runs.

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Why this feature one might ask ?, there are many instances when your VPS might need that extra resource boost, a good example for a temporary boost is used on these screenshots, say you have a mailing-list to send to your customers, notifying of something new or a special on your website, it can be a good idea to boost your VPS resources to coincide with the mailing-list so you can ensure your site wont be overloaded when that sudden influx of visitors comes to your website.

As for permanent, if you know you will need more resources from a certain date onwards, you can now schedule your upgrades so your not paying for the period before when you dont yet need it, it’s just piece of mind and another way VPS.NET shows how flexible our system is.

In the near future we will be adding “Recurring Scheduled Bursts”, so you can set temporary boosts on a recurring fashion.

Keep looking for many more great features, we keep working to amaze you.

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New CP design

Posted on March 13, 2009 by NullMind

Yesterday we updated the design of the VPS.NET CP, if you have not seen it yet, make sure to login and check it out, for those who do not have access, here are a few screenshots for you to indulge

The new main CP page

The Overview Page

And everybody’s favorite, the new KVM-Like Shell page.

Beta Registration Numbers.

Posted on February 26, 2009 by NullMind

Since we started taking registrations for beta, we have received over 600 requests from people interested in being a beta tester so far !

Not bad when you consider we have not yet ran any advertising on VPS.NET, nor our US Cloud is setup yet (it will be next week)… The VPS.NET team is overjoyed with the response we have got from the current Beta members (150+), everybody seem to love the incredibly easy and fast deployment method, using our “Node Slider”, plus the piece of mind that comes from hosting in the cloud.

And still we have much more to come, so stay tuned and visit often

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1Gbps Network

Posted on February 4, 2009 by NullMind

Just for kicks, we decided to try an internal speedtest from another location on our datacenter (not in the VPS Cloud)

The results speak wonders for the local network

root@storm:/tmp# wget http://83.170.64.15/speedtest.256mb
–10:46:33– http://83.170.64.15/speedtest.256mb
=> `speedtest.256mb’
Connecting to 83.170.64.15:80… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 200 OK
Length: 268,435,456 (256M) [text/plain]

100%[====================================>] 268,435,456 91.03M/s

10:46:35 (90.94 MB/s) – `speedtest.256mb’ saved [268435456/268435456]

Yeah, thats as close to 1Gbs as you can get

One day to go !!

Posted on February 1, 2009 by NullMind

I have received some emails from Beta testers asking or their signup inf, it seems it’s not just us who are getting excited, they cant wait to get into the VPS Cloud and start playing

Almost there .. one more day and we will be sending the signup info and unique beta codes, but from those of us internally that have already setup some VPS Nodes … trust me, the wait is worthed it, you will love it !!

Sweet, Sweet Speed !!

Posted on January 30, 2009 by NullMind

We where just doing a few speed tests from within a VPS on the cloud, seeing that the entire network is Gbit based, we expected to see speeds above 100Mps .. and we did

root@my:~# wget http://mirror.sov.uk.goscomb.net/centos/5.2/isos/x86_64/CentOS-5.2-x86_64-bin-1of7.iso

–15:35:17– http://mirror.sov.uk.goscomb.net/centos/5.2/isos/x86_64/CentOS-5.2-x86_64-bin-1of7.iso

=> `CentOS-5.2-x86_64-bin-1of7.iso’

Resolving mirror.sov.uk.goscomb.net… 93.89.90.2

Connecting to mirror.sov.uk.goscomb.net|93.89.90.2|:80… connected.

HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 200 OK

Length: 652,449,792 (622M) [application/x-iso9660-image]

100%[======================================================================================================>] 652,449,792 18.87M/s ETA 00:00

15:35:47 (21.26 MB/s) – `CentOS-5.2-x86_64-bin-1of7.iso’ saved [652449792/652449792]

Thats 210Mps … sweeet

320GB .. of RAM

Posted on January 30, 2009 by NullMind

I cant begin to describe the excitement around the office regarding the upcoming VPS.NET Beta.

Having said that, I’m just writting a small post to show you the Ram available for the Beta period from the UK cloud .. 320GB

Thats way biggest than most people’s Hard Drives, and keep in mind, this is just the beginning, after the beta that number will be in the Terabytes … Yay !!

Beta … 10 days to go.

Posted on January 22, 2009 by NullMind

beta sign1 Beta ... 10 days to go. My, My .. 10 days to go until we open up the VPS.NET Cloud Beta.

As I look to my calendar for the 50th time today, I am rushed with a feeling of overjoy with the fact in 10 days we put forward the best Virtual Private Server Cloud ever released, to be poked, tested and abused by it’s Beta Testers, but I am also left with lots of anxiety when I look at all the network graphs, over 10K lines of new code for the back-end (so far, plus another 500k lines of licensed code), hundreds .. no, thousands of man-hours, a truckload of servers and countless spools of fiber cable .. and a whole lot of fun putting it all together.

Since we closed the Beta, we had a few more people “liaison” their way into the Beta program by calling a friend of a friend who knows a friend who can get them in, so by the time we said “No More !!!“, locked the office doors and refused to answer the phone to internal calls, the total Beta Pool stood at close to 100 people!!

… We cant wait

Beta Testers Signup Complete

Posted on January 5, 2009 by NullMind

We wish to thank everybody who signed up for the beta program, we intended to collect 50 registration and in the end we ended up with 85

A few interesting fact of the participants:

Location:

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As expected, the majority where from the UK & US, but 1/3 are from a wide variety of geo locations.

VPS Experience:
vps experience Beta Testers Signup Complete

Seeing that VPS.NET is an advanced cloud system, it’s no surprise to see so many Advanced users interested on it, but it’s worth noticing the interest of people who never had a VPS before, a VPS.NET Virtual Private Server ensures those people startup with the best possible system

We are on target to initiate the beta by the end of this month (January), everybody who signed up will receive more information on how to proceed by then.

cheers.