Biggest Mistakes Which Providers Make When Pricing IaaS Blog

Biggest Mistakes Which Providers Make When Pricing IaaS

When you launch any new type of service, one of the key challenges is getting your pricing right. In the case of IaaS providers, this is a crucial strategic step, determining your future success and potential profit. IaaS is a competitive market, and pricing such a service comes with a few key considerations. In this blog post, we share our experience working with IaaS providers on what factors to consider with your IaaS pricing. Mistake 1: Pricing According to the Hyperscalers Hyperscalers (eg. AWS, Microsoft Azure, GCP) dominate the IaaS market. They are starting to develop industry and functional expertise […]

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KVM Rolling Maintenance | CloudStack Feature First Look

KVM Rolling Maintenance | CloudStack Feature First Look

In a typical scenario prior to this feature, the administrator had to automate the process of setting hosts in maintenance before upgrading, usually using external automation tools. This feature allows administrators to perform the entire process within CloudStack, providing a flexible framework that allows defining custom scripts to execute on each host. CloudStack executes these scripts within the context of 4 stages: Pre-flight script runs on hosts before commencing the rolling maintenance. If pre-flight check scripts return an error from any host, then rolling maintenance will be cancelled with no actions taken, and an error returned. If there are no pre-flight […]

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