Comments on: Reselling Rackspace Cloud Servers

By: Chris Armer

Chris Armer — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 22:43:07 +0000

Gigenetcloud is going to be putting its very nice whitelabel reseller panel back up for users once its nice and polished. Resellers should check it out. Chris Armer VP of Operations www.gigenetcloud.com www.gigenet.com

By: Chad

Chad — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 20:09:08 +0000

Absolutely, but remember that pricing has a lot to do with the value that you would individually would add to the service. Something to think about…

By: ZerOreZ

ZerOreZ — Sun, 30 May 2010 08:59:28 +0000

Excellent stuff here someone needs to put out a step by step guide to procuring, packaging, and pricing these offering to clients. This is so hot right now, it would be great to get some training/education on how we can most efficiently bring it to market.

By: pavan

pavan — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:34:51 +0000

The info u provided on cloud reselling is very good. I would like to know how a reseller implements the model i.e does he have to use the api provided by the service provider or can he develop his own api. Does the reseller need any infrastructure to implement reselling model. could u guide through the process thrpugh an example in detail how reselling model implemented at the technical level.

By: Per-Olof Hermansson

Per-Olof Hermansson — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 21:44:48 +0000

I opened an account to do some experimenting. I currently have a VPS with 512MB (guaranteed with burst of up to 1024MB), and with 40 GB Harddisk. I also have cPanel/WHM installed.

I mostly host small customers, for example voluntary organizations, and they usually have Joomla, or WordPress with a forum. At the moment I have about 12 customers that I host (and I do most of the technical work).

What would be the equivalent setup be on Rackspace cloud, and what would that cost?

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By: Chad

Chad — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 04:29:11 +0000

Ethan,

Unfortunately it is not possible to get shell access to the servers on Cloud Sites. There are many reasons for this, but the main reason is that because you are not hosted on a single physical server, we cannot allow specific users to change global settings. However, this can be done on a per domain basis with htaccess (on Linux).

If you are looking for easier file manipulation there are tools you can leverage that will give you some of this functionality. One that many of our Cloud Sites customers use is called ExpanDrive (www.expandrive.com).

By: Ethan

Ethan — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 00:56:13 +0000

Would it be possible to get shell access to Sites? The only reason why I would go with Servers is because of that.

By: Chad

Chad — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 23:58:16 +0000

The main differences lie in the integration with the other Rackspace Cloud platforms, Fanatical Support and the utility billing model. On Slicehost you will have standard monthly billing with bandwidth included where as Cloud Servers offers hourly billing based on your instance size and pure utility bandwidth.

Also, Cloud Servers is launching support for Windows in early 2010 which you will not find on Slicehost. I hope this helps.

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