Here at ElasticHosts, we offer a range of pre-installed images to make setting up a new server as easy as choosing a flavour of ice-cream. And recently, we’ve added some fresh new flavours and a neat new feature.
New feature: instant ssh!
Previously, when you chose a pre-installed image, you had to connect via VNC and set a root password before you could ssh in as root. We knew this was a bit of a pain, so we’ve improved the process. Now, you can ssh in straight away with the username toor
, using the password we give you. You’ll still want to set up your own root password, but there’s no need to fiddle around with VNC to do so.
New flavours: CentOS and latest Debian/Ubuntu
Essentially, pre-installed images are like ice-cream flavours. You pick the server you want — Linux or Windows — and we serve it straight up to you, with a cherry on top. There’s no need to milk your own cow and churn your own ice-cream (or rather, crunch through the Linux install process). You just pick the server you want from a drop-down list, and there it is. This is supported by some neat behind-the-scenes technology — in particular, a disk setup script that automatically expands to fill the entire disk available. Anyhow, our flavours are now fresher than ever, for two reasons:
- CentOS 5.5 now available: We now offer the latest version of CentOS, the Red-Hat-based Linux distro.
- Latest versions of Debian and Ubuntu: We’ve upgraded to Debian 5 and Ubuntu 10.04, which means that you can too.
If there are any other images you’d like to use, please let us know.