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Nephoscale 1 Year Free Trial Cloud
Stumbled upon this in case anyone is interested...
http://www.nephoscale.com/1-year-free-trial-cloud-infrastructure-starter-package
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They want a credit card.
Too bad.
And it is just me or their "Live Sales Chat" not working?
So just cancel before the one year is up?
So far so good!
KVM I think as the cpu shows up as QEMU virtual cpu. 2.4Ghz.
The control panel seems really well built. I was even able to upload or generate a new SSH key instead of standard password.
I don't like handing out my credit card information.
cloud offering started by Silicon Valley Web Hosting's founder (svwh.net) and some ex-GoGrid employees
Is that good or bad? I have not heard of them.
Thanks
Got one. Thank's mate.
Let see how it works
Anyone gave their credit card to them yet?
I have never read about them, too.
My opinion: if you want to give me something FOR FREE I do not need to give you my credit card data. It has no sense.
Why don't they ask for a Paypal account, for example? Why a credit card?
It is your card's data with a company most of us do not know.
I did.
I looked over the site and it seems pretty legit. They have tons of info, videos, real phone numbers etc so I figured worth a try.
To avoid spammers and scammers.
If you don't want to provide your information just move along, simple.
use virtual cc w\ $1 limit then cancel it
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So old Ubuntu
They use telephone verification so you'll receive an automated call immediately after ordering and the call will give you a 4-digit code to enter on their website to complete the order.
It should be good. GoGrid is one of the better cloud providers and SVWH has been around since the mid 90's.
http://www.crunchbase.com/company/nephoscale
http://www.nephoscale.com/management-team (experienced management and no 12-yr-old CEO's ... +1 )
The datacenter is CoreSite San Jose
SVWH/Nephoscale ipV4 peers: http://bgp.he.net/AS13332#_peers
The only negative so far is the limited OS choices: CentOS 6.2 64-bit or Ubuntu 10.04 LTS 64-bit
The free account includes both an ipV4 ip address and a private VLAN ip address
Where/how would you get one of these?
Yes, it is really simple. For this YOU insert your credit card data and I did not.
Are you trying to explain why you did this or are you trying to make me do it?
Spammers and scammers can buy VCC, too.
If you want to see if a person is or not a spammer or scammer you can monitor what he/she is doing in your host, right?
Just remember your bandwidth usage.
Outbound traffic is $0.10/GB after you spend the free 50GB.
Outbound traffic is $0.10/GB after you spend the free 50GB.
This is another reason why they require a CC I would imagine.
Yep. It's pretty expensive too, IMO.
Create a virtual CC number for them.
successful upgrade from 10.04 server LTS to 12.04 server LTS
to upgrade just do:
sudo apt-get update & sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo do-release-upgrade -d
(answer yes to any prompts during the upgrade)
Would you tell us how to do that?
This has been posted over a year ago:
http://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/475/free-vps-for-two-years-ok-theres-a-catch
I tried it biut I found the CPU too weak for my needs it was consistently scoring 150-200 on geekbench IIRC. That was a year ago though so YMMV.
necrobump from the dead :P
Nephoscale just added an east coast data center in Virginia.
Is it available under the free tier? Any chance you have a test IP?
I imagine using Vanilla or something.
An alternative is to just go to your neighbourhood supermarket, buy a VISA gift card, use that for EC2 + all the other services you need, and spend the card on a week's worth of coffee or something.
Both locations are available under the free tier. The new Virginia datacenter is QTS in Richmond.
http://www.datacentermap.com/usa/virginia/richmond/qts-richmond.html
Use -y option.