On 05-Oct-2012, at 4:20 PM, Giles Sirett <[email protected]> wrote:
> We've had this requirement a few times before. > In short, it goes against CS's concept of service offerings > > Theres two approaches we've used: > > 1. create, in advance, service offerings of every permutation of > memory/cpu/disk that you want to sell. Or > 2. Use the API to generate new service offerings on the fly, when people spin > up instances > > Whichever approach you use, doing this in the CS gui will be a lot of work, > easiest thing is to create a provisioning site to do it via API, which is > relatively simple > > > In terms of usage/billing, you then just bill out against a service offering > (its just you have lots of different ones) > > > If you have a look at these guys: > http://www.umbeehosting.co.uk/cloud-hosting/public-cloud-instances/ > > they are using approach (1) above Hi Giles and Tamas, That was my understanding also, that billing is always against service offerings. @Giles, I really like the umbeehosting slider system for choosing an offering. Very simple and intuitive. Thanks. @shankerbalan
