Snapshots are relatively cheap considering the safety they provide. Please make sure to enable a snapshot schedule that fits your needs from within the portal today.

While the snapshot feature is useful, and you even have the ability to download the snapshots to your local machine, you should always keep a less frequent external backup of your data for good measure.

Don’t let this happen to you!

Lost Data

We’d love to hear from you on what features you would like to see, but here are a few:

• The ability to change pricing of the plans you offer
• The ability to modify the plans you have available
• Increasing discounts for resellers based on spend
• Integration with your current support systems where possible
• Create, suspend, delete accounts through the reseller portal
• Create support tickets directly with your instance.com account manager
• Clients will have the ability to see a billing period preview within their portal based on the pricing you set.
• Clients will have the ability to initiate support requests from within their cloud portal
• Customized login and header pages available for increased branding

We hope to have this completed in the next few weeks and look forward to expanding this offering going forward. If you have any suggestions please direct them to sales@instance.com.

Until Next Time!

The Instance.com product is flexible and allows you to create complex and advanced network deployments for environments which have special requirements. These environments can be a mixture of both direct and virtual network configurations and can be combined with traditional hosting services such as dedicated servers and server/network colocation. Below are example network configurations that can be configured on the Instance.com cloud product and network.

Direct and Virtual Networking combined:

You can combine the benefits of direct networking and virtual networking to build custom tailored networks. This is useful in situations where you have specific server(s) that need to be completely accessible to the Internet without being behind a virtual router or firewall, but also need access to the private virtual network where the rest of your instances reside.

Hybrid hosting with dedicated servers or server colocation:

Instance.com supports the integration with the 1-800-HOSTING dedicated server network. By leveraging the power and benefits of both technologies you can create high performing and secure application environments which give you both the power and security of a dedicated server environment with the scalability and reliability of the Instance.com virtual servers.

The example below is typical of common requirements for both types of services. The example shows how you can build scalable web servers that can be load balanced for performance and scalability along with the benefit of being able to quickly turn-up additional web server resources on demand. These instances have an additional network added to them that allows access to the 1-800-HOSTING dedicated server network where the customer may have database and/or additional servers already deployed behind their hardware firewall.

Direct networking is a more simple and traditional networking configuration. With direct networking your instance are assigned a public IP address that is bound directly to the interface on the server. Instances deployed with direct networking are not able to use the firewall/port-forward option, nor can they participate in the built in load balancing offering. By default they also do not have access to the internal virtual LAN that may be available should you have additional instances configured with the virtual networking option. Example advanced network configurations presented later on will show you how this is possible with the Instance.com cloud product.

In this example you will see how to use unique public IP addresses for each instance to provide global services to your users.

In this example you will want to acquire an additional IP address to create the additional port-forward for the public service (HTTP – Port 80)

You can then choose the new address added to your account and proceed to create the port-forward as before.

At this point you should have two HTTP servers listening on the standard port 80 each with their own unique IP address.

The next configuration we will explain will be direct public IP addresses, the most simple networking configuration possible and then a combination of many to create a power network infrastructure from which to run your applications.