i have an appointment with a rep for skalicloud tomorrow. thanks for sharing what you have had. will you blog this ? put some screenshots.
thinking of having this for a local implementation (malaysian visitors only). requires java for batch processing some backend services. will have to see how much it all adds up. On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 7:03 PM, Mohd Kamal Bin Mustafa <[email protected]>wrote: > 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/ > -- 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/
