Start/Stop APIs and fast suspend

[chanwit]

Hello,

I was evaluating to host my server on EC2, but I've now just found FlexiScale.
My question is that what does StartServer() and StopServer() do?
Are they doing resume and suspend? If not, is it possible to do so?

As suggested by the API doc, I've got the idea of doing some computing intensive tasks on-demand by triggering from PHP front-end. So it would be great if you're offering the way to suspend and resume a virtual server.

Regards,

Chanwit

[james]

Hi,

At present they do not do suspend and resume although this is something we are looking to implement, shutdown fully stops the server, restarting the server will automatically bring it back up with your previous configuration unlike ec2, so you can just shut it down when you are not using it and boot it up when you require it.

Regards

James

[gegard]

... you can just shut it down when you are not using it and boot it up when you require it....
I should think that we could automate this remotely to, say start up at 8am and shutdown at 8pm daily, but can this be automated within Flexiscale - say from a control panel (for an UNmanaged server)?

Thank you,
Geoff

[tonylucas]

This might be something we add in the future, however it's trivial to setup at the moment using a cron job and the API from pretty much anywhere.

There will be a new web interface launched in Q3 which will look a lot nicer, but we will continue to add functionality in the mean time.

Regards,

Tony.