On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 6:09 PM, Raja Iskandar Shah <[email protected]> wrote: > if you ask any ict personnel from the govt agencies involved in the mps > project (especially kpkt), you would be having second thots. > > but do give it a try and test first.
Signed for the free trial two days ago. Some quick overview:- The ssl on the sign up page and also the user account not implemented properly - well my browser complained that some content are not coming through ssl. Sloppy programming I think and for such critical service shouldn't be an excused. Signing up quite straightforward. They send me the password through email and another half through sms. Logged in and I can see an option to add new server. Available images are limited and I'm a bit disappointed. Only Centos 5.5, Debian Lenny and few others. I want Ubuntu 10.04 - that's what we're using for all our servers. But I try creating Debian server. The instruction on how to log into my new server not really clear. They show VNC password on the servers listing and some note that I can also connect through ssh. But the ssh connection seem to only accept key authentication. No option to create or upload key when creating the server like what we have when creating new EC2 instance. So I have to log in using vnc and enable password authentication for ssh. Latency was good - 40ms two days ago and 20ms while I'm typing this - could be the weekend I guess. Having vnc console is good in case we were locked out of ssh - happened to me once on EC2. Still remember how cool it is when slicehost has ajax console when they first came out with xen hosting years ago. I'm not sure how secure vnc protocol - is it encrypted ? At least with slicehost ajax console we're using it through ssl. I'd email support asking if it possible for me to use Ubuntu 10.04 which they replied almost instantly that they don't have preinstalled image of Ubuntu 10.04 but I can choose - self install from cd option when adding new server. I did it just now and the installation is straightforward. There's no option to save the instance as install image that can be used when adding new server. There's however an option to copy the disk attached to the instance and I can see that we can boot from a disk when creating server but my test account didn't allow me to copy the disk so no way for me to verify this. Another thing lacking is "Security Group" like things as we have in Amazon EC2 so that mean we have to get dirty configuring iptables ourselves. Not sure yet how viable the service. In term of pricing they definitely more expensive than EC2. EC2 reserved instance is USD0.01/hour but the 40ms latency could be their winning factor. -- To unsubscribe from and detail about this group http://portal.mosc.my/osdc-my-mailing-list-information MOSC2011 http://fb.me/mosc2011 and http://portal.mosc.my/
