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That doesn't even make any sense.
Hosting services are generally not for mom and pop to start a vps on demand. For that kind of cookie cutter service, they have something called shared hosting, and its already plenty easy and has more or less what you are asking for.
If a developer can't spend couple of hours (even less unless you are a beginner) learning their way around setting up a server, it just a disaster waiting to happen.
There are time and place for cookie-cutter services, vps is not it.
Developers are more accepting of "Sane Defaults" as Rails has proven, but not enough hosting providers are interested in selling to developers. I have a feeling this will change sooner rather than later as the fields continue to merge.
Fixed that for you. Too often all developers care about is "Ship. Ship. Ship". Get a pager and come join our world for a bit. You'll understand what its like to run a real-world, mission critical app.
You break my system, you're in deep shit sunny Jim.
if you need it to be quicker you simply take a snapshot of the resulting instance and clone it to new instances.
What are they doing to prevent this kind of abuse from happening?
well, the thing is? yes, hardware costs are falling (and sysadmin costs are rising) to the point where it's actually cheaper for me to give you a VPS than to give you a shared hosting account.
Problem is... that's because I'm depending on you to do the sysadmin work. That's my problem with things like Cpanel and webmin, well, and pre-installed services, too. they give folks a false sense of control. I mean, with control panels, I say they work 95% of the time. The problem is that then you expect it to work all the time; you depend on it. so 5% of the time? they are kinda fucked. And if you want to take that risk, that's fine, sometimes that's rational. but I don't want to be the guy who has to clean up that 5% of the time... not for $10 a month or whatever you are paying, that's for sure.
That's why I don't like the idea of pre-installed applications in an image... As a service provider? I don't want to set the expectation that I'm going to support apache/php/ruby/node/mysql/postgresql. and pre-installing it does set the expectation, for a lot of people, that you will support it when it breaks six months from now.
Are you saying that you just keep adding things to the server until you've covered that mythical user?
That sounds like an absolute disaster from a security, maintenance, and resource usage perspective.
I don't see what problem this solves. Start an EC2 instance (takes seconds), configure it as you want it (which to me includes a hardened, specific set of software with very specific routing rules where nginx sits in front of node, etc), and then save an AMI from your specific mix of technology.
Trivial, and perfectly suited to the user's needs. I can then spin up any number of perfectly suited instances.
Installed and available are a huge sight different from running and exploitable, though. I can have a completely unpatched Apache from 5 years ago, it's invulnerable to foes up to and including the NSA unless the app is running and listening on a port :)
Would be trickier, but not impossible for more system-level apps like Cpanel/Virtualmin.
Edit: Downvotes != disagreeing. Captcha is a serious fucking problem. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laEVYBxLfF0 I know the video is satirical. That's the point. There needs to be a solution that doesn't involve photocopying sodden pages from Mathematica Principia and asking users to take a guess at what on Earth the stupid squiggly lines are supposed to read.
[1] To restore from backup, if you're a US citizen- commit a terorist or copyright offence, and collect your backedup data from your attorney at your court appearance. Non citizens can just attempt a border crossing.
Thinking about it more, just using an easier CAPTCHA would go along way to making it more user friendly. ReCaptha is hard. It usually takes me 2-3 squinting tries to get it right :/
I'm also running that server at term.isv.io if you need to ssh into any server a pinch, but of course running your own server is the more secure solution.
Looks like somebody's 35 minutes were up
Been thinking about doing the same for VPS, but using LXC instead (actually already using it for internally for running tests, CI etc).
Plus they're up front with their billing - I need to send in a question and wait for a email response on how much it will cost to keep it longer then 30 minutes?
I'll pass. His concept is to SAVE TIME, yet with all the missing details, it will end up costing more time (and probably money) then it's worth.
Just note that you need to have an active Linode on your account in order for any DNS records hosted with Linode to be served.
If you are "doing it right" you can actually get a freshly installed server in under 60 seconds if your installer isn't totally busted (IE: stock ubuntu/centos/etc).
When would I use this? Among other reasons, perhaps: You need linux but accidentally used windows
It's nice to get a heads up that you require cookies, you know.