Two web servers behind a load balancer look redundant on a diagram. But if both VMs happen to land on the same physical host, one hardware fault takes out both, and you usually find that out during the outage. HA Groups fix this. Put VMs that back each other up in a group, and each…
If you’ve run high availability on Linux, you know the pattern. Two servers share a virtual IP, and VRRP decides which one holds it. When the active server fails, the standby claims the address within seconds, and clients keep connecting to the same IP. You can now build that on Cloud VPS. A floating IP…
Plenty of people run a Windows server in the cloud for one reason: they want a desktop they can reach from anywhere. They browse the web, keep a few sites logged in, or work from a fixed IP address. A Windows Server license, billed every hour, is a lot to pay for that. Our new…
Object Storage is now live at Togglebox, in both our Dallas and Philadelphia clouds. It is standard S3 on NVMe-backed storage. If you already run Cloud VPS with us, adding it takes one click and costs nothing until you store your first byte. Fast enough for production data Most object storage is built as a…
Two moments make any admin nervous: starting a big in-place upgrade, and staring at a machine that will not boot. Cloud VPS now has a feature for each. Upgrade Mode gives you a way back before you touch anything. Rescue Mode gets you in after something breaks. Upgrade Mode: a checkpoint before risky changes Distribution…