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

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