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Virtual Cloud Desktop Free Trial

free cloud desktop

Are you looking for cloud computing support with easy management solution? If you have been looking for such service, today I would like to introduce a revolutionary service where we can take full advantages of VDI(Virtual Desktop Infrastructure). The best of the best is we can try out for free!

The service we're going to introduce is called Desktone(www.desktone.com), a group who pioneered the concept of Desktops as a Service(DaaS), they offer the easiest and most affordable way to deploy virtual desktops.

What's Virtual Desktop Infrastructure?

Virtual desktop infrastructure, sometimes also called virtual desktop interface (VDI) is the server computing model enabling desktop virtualization, encompassing the hardware and software systems required to support the virtualized environment. The term was coined by VMware Inc. In the past couple of years, some large organizations have turned to VDI as an alternative to the server-based computing model used by Citrix and Microsoft Terminal Services.

The advantages using VDI – Because the "virtualized" desktop hosted on a remote central server, all of the programs, applications, processes, and data used are kept on the server and run centrally. Users can also switch among different virtual desktops simultaneously to work with different jobs and don't affect each other.

Desktone Virtual desktop free trial details

By delivering virtual desktops in the cloud, Desktone enables enterprises to rapidly provision desktops to users on any device, anywhere, without the upfront costs and complexity of traditional desktop virtualization, transforming desktops from a CAPEX to OPEX item.

The 7-day free trial desktop is configured with Windows Server 2008 R2 with 2GB RAM and 25GB disk space. The registration is as simple as filling out a form and you get desktop details in minutes later! As for full features of the service, simple check out this official page: http://www.desktone.com/products/desktop_cloud/features

If you're satisified with their service you can upgrade to paid plan with $30 per desktop, if you purchase more desktops the relative discount will be applied. There'll be more available system OS templates and amount of cloud server resources etc. A simple view as the below table

　 Pro Enterprise Ultimate Premium
CPU Cores 1 2 4 Custom
Memory (GB) 2 4 8 Custom
Disk Space (GB) 25 25 50 Custom
Operating System Windows XP Professional, Windows 7 Enterprise,Linux RDP, RGS, Citrix Receiver Windows XP Professional, Windows 7 Enterprise, Linux RDP, RGS, Citrix Receiver Windows XP Professional, Windows 7 Enterprise, Linux RDP, RGS, Citrix Receiver Windows XP Professional, Windows 7 Enterprise, Linux RDP, RGS, Citrix Receiver

JustCloud Review

justcloud review

Our whole lives are stored on our hard drives … so what happens when it crashes or gets stolen? When a hard drive fails, and the data isn't backed up, it's gone for good. And it's not a question of if your hard drive will fail, it's a question of when your hard drive will fail — it's only a matter of time.

Above is part of the newsletter from one of my hosting providers for Justcloud cloud storage service. If you're looking for quality and affordable backup plan, let's check out if the justcloud is good or not.

Justcloud introduction

Justcloud is division of Thejustdevelopit group(the mother company of Justhost). There're actually total of 3 brands about cloud computing with JDI, they're Zipcloud, Mypcbackup and Justcloud. The justcloud brand is absolutely the most popular one for the outstanding design and affordable service. As with all the other JDI Backup brands, JustCloud offers a complete online backup, file sharing and file syncing solution.

Why backup in cloud space?

Not sure you need cloud-based storage? These scary stats may make you change your mind:

  • All hard drives will crash in their lifetime
  • An estimated $400 million is lost in the U.S. annually due to poor data protection practices1
  • 57% of SMBs have no disaster recovery plan2
  • The U.S. Small Business Administration estimates that 25% of businesses do not reopen after a major data loss3
  • 70% of small businesses that experience a major data loss go out of business within a year4

So you see how important it is to keep a good backup of our data before you wish you did!

Justcloud Pros

The Justcloud is offering pretty nice solution for cloud backup. Here's short list about the spotlights

  • Up to 14 days FREE trial before you pay
  • Unlimited storage for only £4.95/mo
  • Sync multiple computers
  • Access Files anywhere via PC or mobile device
  • 100% compatible with Windows and MacOS
  • Encrypted and secure file transfer

If you think the price is still not acceptable, don't worry, they have offered 35% discount if you have navigated their website carefully. Just scroll to the bottom navigations and click the (Secret Link) then promotion is activated automatically!

JustCloud Cons

Indeed, there's very clear weakness with Justcloud. For example they don't show up what the service price is on website. Especially from some time ago their free trial storage has only 14MB, that means nothing can be backed up with this service. The good news is they changed to unlimited later and we can take the same advantages of paid service

How do we think about?

Well, that completely depends your requirements. The Justcloud will be good choice if you need efficient customer support and guaranteed service. If you just like to upload your files to online storage to share with people, then other free service plan such as Gdrive or Dropbox will work properly as well.

Coolhandle Coupon

coolhandle coupon

Coolhandle is one of the fastest growing hosting brand with low cost services. While they're providing very affordable service plans, some nice coolhandle coupon codes are still available for additional discounts. If you're looking for such promo codes, I would like to share with the up to date ones.

How much discounts will be generated?

This coolhandle promo code will give us one time 20% discount to ALL shared hosting plans(including Starter, Business and Pro plans). It's only valid for new hosting account sign up but not applied for renewal. In case you're interested with their VPS server plans, there's still an active coupon code "startvps", It will give us 20% discount as well no matter if we order monthly, quarterly or yearly. It's just working the same as the shared hosting coupon.

How long will this coupon be valid? There's no time limit provided by coolhandle company. As far as I can tell it can be used as long as coolhandle exists on the planet.

More Coolhandle Coupons

  • Startvps: 20% off any coolhandle VPS hosting plan
  • 30off: 30% off coolhandle dedicated server plan

How to use the coolhandle coupon?

Here're the steps to apply the coolhandle promo code when ordering

  • Go to http://www.coolhandle.com website and choose the right service plan
  • Register or add your existing domain to hosting
  • Enter the code from Promo code box and click "Apply".

Here you will find there're multiple options about the service registration and different price is provided. The longger period we select, the higher promotion will be applied. The most promotional price $3.95/mo on home page is for 3 years registration only. If we apply the 20% off coupon code, the price will go down a lot! So for money saving purpose, we highly recommend select 36 months deal. In case we choosed monthly or yearly, we can always click the "Edit" link to select again.

Besides the cost, is it good to sign up so long? The answer is yes. Coolhandle is serving thousands of global websites with up to date management techs. Some outstanding features such as cloudflare integration and cloudlinux support lead their service to top ranking list.

Coolhandle Hosting Features

Coolhandle comes with side by side support hosting plans including shared, vps and dedicated server solutions. Generally speaking, eahc hosting plan is configured with industry standards and actually we can even get more! Some outstanding features such as

  • Multiple domain support per account
  • Custom PHP.ini support and .htaccess support
  • Cron jobs support in cpanel control panel
  • FFmpeg and multimedia support
  • Free SEO package for each hosting plan
  • Free cloudflare integration in control panel
  • Cloudlinux platform for best security/performance
  • SSH Shell access support for each hosting plan
  • And more!

Full details can be found on our previous coolhandle review page in case you have not visited yet.

Best VPS Hosting Under $10/mo

Budget vps under $10/mo

There're thousands of VPS hosting providers with tons of features. Normally it 's costly to get a vps server. However there're some kind of services prepared for limited budget purpose. Some service plans are even more affordable than tipical shared hosting. After some time's research, we compiled a list of the most affordable vps service that's under $10/mo. In case you're looking for such plan, you don't have to look anywhere else.

TOP VPS Hosting services under $10/mo

VPS Brand Datacenter Xen/OpenVZ RAM Hard Disk Bandwidth Pricing Official Site
VolumeDrive Pennsylvania OpenVZ 1GB 50GB 2TB $4.95/mo volumedrive.com
BurstNET Los Angeles
Chicago
Miami 		OpenVZ 512MB 20GB 1TB $5.95/mo www.burst.net
DirectSpace Chicago
Los Angeles 		OpenVZ 512MB 20GB 1TB $4/mo directspace.net
Hostigation Los Angeles Xen 256MB 25GB 1TB $4/mo hostigation.com
BudgetVM Los Angeles
Chicago
Dallas 		Xen 123MB 5GB 125GB $3.95/mo www.budgetvm.com
RapidXen Chicago
Los Angeles 		Xen 128MB 5GB Unlimited $7.49/mo rapidxen.net
2Host St. Louis
Atlanta 		Xen 128MB 5GB 10000GB $4.49/mo www.2host.com
123Systems Dallas OpenVZ 128MB 5GB 250GB $3/mo 123systems.net
Crucial Paradigm Dallas Xen 128MB 15GB 120GB $6/mo www.crucialp.com
DMEHosting Denver OpenVZ
Xen 		64MB
128MB 		3GB
5GB 		200GB
400GB 		$6.95/mo
$9.95/mo 		www.dmehosting.com
ECHO Servers Dallas OpenVZ 96MB 2GB 150GB $5.99/mo www.echoservers.com
HostGD Scranton OpenVZ 128MB
128MB 		5GB
10GB 		25GB
50GB 		$4.95/mo
$9.95/mo 		www.hostgd.com
Hosting Inside Taiwan XEN 256MB 10GB 250GB $8.75/mo www.hostinginside.com
Internet VPS Scranton OpenVZ 512MB 50GB Unlimited $9.99/mo www.internetvps.com
NeoSurge Chicago, Illinois Xen 128MB 5GB 200GB $6.95/mo www.neosurge.com
QuillHost Sacramento OpenVZ 256MB 40GB 400GB $7.99/mo www.quillhost.com
TurboVPS Texas
Indiana 		OpenVZ
Xen 		128MB 10GB 1000GB $7.49/mo turbovps.com
VPS4Less Germany OpenVZ 256MB 3GB 1000GB €4.75/mo vps4less.de

Notes for Cheap VPS server

The price looks great right? Especially they're located in different places in the world. If you have business in that area, you can check out them directly. The budget vps is perfect if you sign up for learning purpose. If you would like to put your live business project on the server, I think it's better to choose a upgrade plan since more resources can be allocated there. Always remember the popular saying "you get what you pay for". Since it only costs us several bucks, how much more we can expect?

Cheap VPS servers are provided as unmanaged with limited support. Means you need to take care of your vps server completely by yourself. It's pretty good if you're going to learn for server managing or test out projects via the least cost.

Best VPS Management Software

vps management software

VPS is hot on the web, no matter if we're the actual end service user or running a vps hosting business, we certainly need the right software to manage the server professionally and securely. In this post I would like to introduct 3 of the most popular web based vps management softwares and the popular service provider.

What will a good vps management software do?

A good software solution will be easy to deploy and friendly to both admin and clients. In short, it can complete the following work on the fly

  1. Automatically provision VPS and setup all configuration.
  2. Integrated with billing system,such as WHMCS.
  3. Reset the administrator password easily.
  4. Adjust the server resource such as CPU,memory or disk on the fly.
  5. Transfer among different nodes and be able to export/import configurations to other management softwares.

What're some of the popular vps management softwares?

Please note, the software is not referring to the hosting control panel solution like cpanel or webmin etc. The management software is about the host system level solutions where users be able to reload the vps OS and reset server root password etc. There're lots of such products on the web like virtpanel, hypervm etc. Here we will check out 3 of the most popular ones "Hypervm, Veportal and Solusvm".

Hypervm vs Veportal vs Solusvm

Hypervm is an open source software for virtual server management, it is a multi-tiered, multi-server, multi-virtualization software product. The spotlight with hypervm is it's fully integrated with the most powerful open source linux control panel – Kloxo, all Kloxo functions can be accessed from Hypervm without having to log into Kloxo. Some core features with hypervm as the following

  • Integration with whmcs and awbs
  • Cross datacenter deployment
  • Distributed management via single console
  • OpenVZ and Xen compatible
  • Windows virtualization via Xen
  • Built in messaging system

Hypervm official site: http://lxcenter.org/software/hypervm

About Veportal – Veportal is a light weight and affordable VPS management software, unlike the complex design from hypervm, veportal is featured for it's simple/clear. Both server admin or start users be able to familiar with it in short time. Core features with Veportal

  • Detailed Node Statistics
  • Detailed VPS Resource Usage
  • Universal Import from OpenVZ
  • Instant Official OS-Template Downloads
  • Simple & Advanced IP Pooling

More details can be found on this veportal official page

About Solusvm – It's probably the best and most popular vps management solution. Solus Virtual Manager (SolusVM) is a powerful GUI based VPS management system with full OpenVZ, Linux KVM, Xen Paravirtualization and Xen HVM support. SolusVM allows you and your clients to manage a VPS cluster with security & ease. The features from Solusvm include all above softwares.

So from above introduction, the Solusvm is definitely the best solution at the moment. Especially the windows compatible feature makes it almost the only solution for many server providers. Hypervm has similar feature but multiple bugs reported and caused huge loss to users. As for Veportal, it's perfect solution for linux VPS managing but lack of support for windows server. Their biggest customer is BurstNET, if it come with windows support, I guess the BurstNET won't choose Solusvm because of the price.

Anyway, if it's just for linux vps management purpose, Veportal is highly recommended solution for pricing and friendly GUI design. If windows is planned in your business, Solusvm would be the right one.

Custom VPS Hosting

custom vps hosting

VPS is perfect choice when our websites reach the shared server limitation. Normally we have to accept the default offers from server providers, in case we need more features we have to contact support to upgrade. What if we don't use that much and all those features in the plan? In that case we need a custom vps hosting plan and configure the server with our real requirements.

Custom VPS Server Advantages

With no doubt there're lots of benefits from a custom vps hosting. The best of the best is we can configure the server with our live requirements with no waste of server resource, this is resulted with the minimum cost for our budget. In this way, we can get the best server configuration to serve our website.

TOP Custom VPS Hosting Providers

Custom vps hosting is not popularly offered as the traditional hosting plans because the hosting company will have to deal with lots of technical stuff and management work etc. Even from the most well known hosting company, they would not will to offer such opportunity. Till present, the quality names with custom vps hosting service are myhosting and hostgator, and maybe the less well known name hostrightnow. Here let's check out their hosting features and compare which one is better to choose.

Myhosting – The largest internet service provider of Canada and the most well known hosting provider in that country. They myhosting offers quality and cheap hosting plans. Especially to their custom vps hosting service, it can be customized in detailed features such as server cores/RAM/IPs/control panel and many addon products. The low cost is not only referring to the free linux OS but also hyper-v windows server 2008! Another spotlight is we have the option to select what we would like to use the server for including options for small businesses, resellers and web developers.

Hostgator – One of the largest hosting providers who mainly focus on linux hosting plans. The hostgator custom vps hosting is 100% linux based. Although it's called custom vps, users do not have many options to customize. In short, it's more like they're offering multiple pre-configured vps server plans via a changeable bar.

Bluehost – Very famous hosting provider with full hosting solutions. Unlike any above, bluehost is cloud based for instant provisioning for server setup. The bluehost cloud vps servers are pretty scalable to meet any your website requirement. The best of the best is the management center is 100% mobile compatible so you can monitor and manage server anywhere with internet access!

To understand their offers more clearly, here's a simple table view about the service features(designed with default offer)

Brands Myhosting Hostgator Bluehost
Disk Space 20GB(linux) 30GB 30GB
25GB(windows)
Bandwidth 300GB 500GB 1000GB
RAM 512MB (linux) 768MB 2048MB
1024MB (windows)
Server OS Windows/Linux Linux Linux
Control panel Plesk($3/mo) Plesk cpanel
Cpanel($10/mo)
IPs 1 2 1
Pricing $15.95/mo $31.96/mo $14.99/mo
$44.95/mo
Promo Code MyhostingCouponVPS Default 20% off 50% off first month

As we see from the comparison, Myhosting is perfect choice no matter from server offers and pricing. Since myhosting is CA based hosting company, many people might think their service is not suitable for oversea business website. However, please note they have both CA and US datacenters. That means we can take the advantages of US networking with less money!

Go to http://www.myhosting.com and customize your own VPS server today

More about Custom VPS Server

Custom VPS is perfect solution to support your web development requirements. You also don't have to spend too much in renting a dedicated server for additional resources. If you would like to learn more about this service, please take a look at the below FAQs

What's custom VPS?

Custom VPS server means you can configure the VPS server for every features including disk space, RAM and CPU cores etc. Generally you need to be familiar with computing to compose a perfect custom VPS server.

Can I choose any kind server OS for custom vps hosting?

It depends, custom VPS hosting mainly allows people to customize the server hardware features. You can choose the OS offered by server provider.

Do I get hosting control panel?

You would be able to choose the needed hosting control panel during sign up.

Is custom vps server more expensive?

Since you need to configure the vps setup completely by yourself, the final server cost might be more or less than pre-setup vps hosting plan.

What's the main difference comparing to traditional VPS hosting?

There's no technicial difference for the two types server. The main difference is on the setup process. While you get everything pre-defined for traditional vps, you need to specify configuration by yourself.

Can I purchase additional resource after server setup?

Yes you can, you just need to pay the extra addon fees.