My CloudatCost Wishlist

scottalanmiller

My top two things are....

I was very clear labels (hostnames) that I set on the main console so that I can easily identify which server is which without looking in the notes. Once you have more than two or three, this gets pretty confusing.
I want the server flavor labeled clearly so that I can just look at see which is a Dev1 or a BigDog, for example.

scottalanmiller

Well just figured out that Modify -> Rename changes the hostname. Doh! Sorry about that, biggest problem solved

JaredBusch

A way to specify at setup that you do not want their 7 day shutdown runmode.

The note on this is in the setup email, but I did not read it the first 3 times.

scottalanmiller

Took me a while to find that too

Anyone else notice this?

"What about bandwidth?
The launch special includes fixed amount of monthly data transfer. If you exceed 1 TB, we bill $0.01 (That's 1 cent) per GB for anything over the included amount."

I'm wondering if this means eventually they will start charging all of us for bandwidth. Also is that 1TB of bandwidth monthly or lifetime?

@JaredBusch said:

A way to specify at setup that you do not want their 7 day shutdown runmode.

The note on this is in the setup email, but I did not read it the first 3 times.

What is the purpose of that anyway?

scottalanmiller

@thecreativeone91 said:

Anyone else notice this?

"What about bandwidth?
The launch special includes fixed amount of monthly data transfer. If you exceed 1 TB, we bill $0.01 (That's 1 cent) per GB for anything over the included amount."

I'm wondering if this means eventually they will start charging all of us for bandwidth. Also is that 1TB of bandwidth monthly or lifetime?

It says that it includes. So it sure sounds like the volume is included.

AmanBhogal

Hey Guys!
Aman from cloudatcost here

This is awesome feedback... this is exactly the feedback I love!

We are working on redesigning the website and I will promise you all that anything you guys are having issues with in terms of usability or even on the back end, we will definitely look at them and find a way to do it better.

Dashrender

@thecreativeone91 said:

@JaredBusch said:

A way to specify at setup that you do not want their 7 day shutdown runmode.

The note on this is in the setup email, but I did not read it the first 3 times.

What is the purpose of that anyway?

I'm guessing if they are considering it a dev box why would it need to keep running all the time? Though instead of automatically setting this it should be one of the steps you walk through during the build.

JaredBusch

@Dashrender said:

I'm guessing if they are considering it a dev box why would it need to keep running all the time? Though instead of automatically setting this it should be one of the steps you walk through during the build.

@AmanBhogal This certainly needs to be more clearly mentioned. The setting is very obvious if you poke in your control panel at all, but the notice about it is buried int he bottom of the welcome email you get every time you reprovision your server.

JaredBusch

bah missed obfuscating a password. well doesn't matter this box has been reimaged anyway..

Have you noticed the password is in plain text on a batch file used to setup the windows boxes on the virtual cd rom drive?

Danp

A way to snapshot your server, so that you can test changes and restore to a prior point in time.

Reid Cooper

@Danp said:

A way to snapshot your server, so that you can test changes and restore to a prior point in time.

I was wondering about that one too. That's a pretty huge feature. Snapshots and a simple means of transporting that snapshot offsite too (a simple download option is fine.) A snap and copy to another provider is great too (like "make a copy in S3.")

scottalanmiller

@Danp said:

A way to snapshot your server, so that you can test changes and restore to a prior point in time.

That is a big feature. Definitely would like to see that.

JaredBusch

@Danp said:

A way to snapshot your server, so that you can test changes and restore to a prior point in time.

This would be a great add on feature.

scottalanmiller

And, of course, OpenSuse and FreeBSD offerings

doyle.jack

Here's something that can be fixed. The word I circled should be "you're".

@scottalanmiller said:

And, of course, OpenSuse and FreeBSD offerings

What about Upload your own temporary ISO? that might be asking for abuse though.

scottalanmiller

@thecreativeone91 said:

@scottalanmiller said:

And, of course, OpenSuse and FreeBSD offerings

What about Upload your own temporary ISO? that might be asking for abuse though.

No cloud provider offers that that I know. It causes a lot of complications. It's a nice idea, but not ultimately very practical.