Holiday Cheer: Snapshots for Cloud Servers and Price Reductions
It’s the holiday season here in the US and in many parts of the world. We’d like to wish everyone happy holidays.
It wouldn’t be right if we didn’t spread a little holiday cheer, so here are a couple of goodies for you:
1) Effective immediately, the per-gigabyte price for creating and storing VPS snapshots is being reduced from $0.32 to $0.25.
2) We are eliminating the charge to rebuild a server from a snapshot. You may now rebuild to your heart’s content.
3) There will no longer be a separate charge for downloading snapshots—it will simply be rolled into your server’s bandwidth usage. This should make snapshot downloads effectively free for nearly everyone (if you have leftover bandwidth).
4) We’ve saved the best for last. Snapshots are now available for our cloud servers. Further, they are shared with VPS’s. So, you can take a snapshot of a VPS and build a cloud server with it. Or vice versa.
Snapshots combined with our hourly cloud servers add another dimension to the flexibility that snapshots offer.
For instance, you can fire up a new cloud server to build a custom server image specific to your deployment needs. If you can build it in a few hours, you’ll just pay for those few hours. When you’re finished, take a snapshot. Then, use it to build new servers (VPS’s or cloud servers).
In a couple months when you need to update it a little, launch a new cloud server from that snapshot. Make your changes and take a new snapshot. Instant new base image.
Our cloud servers remain in a invitation-only mode (so we can better manage capacity growth), but invitations are going out regularly, so don’t let that be a roadblock.
While it’s not quite time to get into all the details, we have a big stack of new features and goodies for all 3 of our major services (DNS, Watchdog monitoring, VPS and cloud servers) — 2010 should be a fun year and we look forward to sharing both the year and some great new features with you.
As always, we’d love to hear from you.
The Zerigo team