Turnkey Installs on CloudatCost

Sparkum

Hey guys.

Anyone know if it would be possible to install any of the Turnkey installs at Cloudatcost? (On one of their dev severs mainly)

I realize they are downloadable as ISO or VM's files but thought I would still ask if anyone knew of anyway or working some linux magic.

Thanks

scottalanmiller

No, not at this time. No "uploading of ISOs or VMs" to CloudatCost. Or to most clouds.

Sparkum

@scottalanmiller

Crud, k thanks

Danp

According to this post on Twitter, they don't care what OS you load on their servers. You may want to review the process that he used to load FreeBSD described here.

IRJ

If you have a beefy enough server, you could run hypervisor.

Sparkum

@IRJ

Ya I'm more so trying to stay in the realm of multiple low servers doing specific jobs instead of the beefier ones.

Add slowly.

Edit:
Especially since the harddrive space is so low.

IRJ

@Sparkum I would think the fat dog servers would help fix that issue. They are not priced yet, but it would be interesting to see where they are priced.

http://cloudatcost.com/#hosting

Sparkum

@IRJ

I'm gonna guess thats pricey but ya, that would definately allow it I would assume.

Sparkum

@Danp

Hmm interesting thanks.

I wish they had a simple "Custom ISO" which allowed for upload, would be so sweet.

scottalanmiller

They seem to be considering it. But so far, not available. That adds quite some complication, but it can be done.

Reid Cooper

That would be a pretty nice new feature. Lots of new OS options and appliance products could be used then.

Sparkum

Ya even deploying stuff like Sophos UTM, monitoring services, 1 click deployments, so many options would make C@C seem so desirable to everyone and anyone (well more so)

scottalanmiller

The One Click Installs at Digital Ocean are pretty cool. They are the only vendor that I know that does that but it really sets them apart for small shops that don't want to take time to built out their own web server from scratch, database server, ELK logging server or whatever. We used them to get ELK up and running quickly, for example.

@Sparkum said:

Ya even deploying stuff like Sophos UTM, monitoring services, 1 click deployments, so many options would make C@C seem so desirable to everyone and anyone (well more so)

That's part of the reason they don't do it. They don't want just anything in there. Like a Router, DNS, DHCP. It opens them up for a lot more load on the servers and less predicable. as well as more vulnerabilities.