{"id":84,"date":"2016-12-06T23:30:29","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T05:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seanhiatt.ws\/site\/?p=84"},"modified":"2017-07-20T08:50:04","modified_gmt":"2017-07-20T14:50:04","slug":"godaddy-and-the-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seanhiatt.ws\/site\/godaddy-and-the-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"GoDaddy and the Cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"

UPDATE:<\/strong>\u00a0GoDaddy is discontinuing Could Server service on 12\/31\/2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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We’re discontinuing GoDaddy Cloud Servers.<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Please retrieve or back up your content before\u00a0December 31, 2017<\/span><\/span>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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After this date, your GoDaddy Cloud Servers account will no longer be supported and your servers will not be accessible. Here’s everything you need to know to get prepared:<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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\u2022<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Bitnami apps and images won’t be supported after\u00a011\/15\/2017<\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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All other images and servers won’t be supported after\u00a012\/31\/2017<\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Prior to these dates, you’ll still be able to build new servers, test, clone and destroy servers.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Your billing cycle and billing rate won’t change.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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To replace your current plan, please consider switching to a Virtual Private Server, which provides fast, scalable and secure hosting.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Today I created my first web server instance with GoDaddy on their cloud service. Earlier in the year they started to offer several cloud services.<\/p>\n

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Setup Successful<\/p><\/div>\n

I chose the LAMP module, which unfortunately uses the Ubuntu Linux operating system, which I am not familiar with at all. I need to see about making sure all modules (PHP, MySQL, etc) are up to date. Perhaps next time I will just stick with CentOS as that is what I am most familiar with. I still could end up destroying this instance and recreating a new one with CentOS and just installing Apache, PHP, and MySQL on my own.<\/p>\n

Set up was simple and took less than five minutes to enter in all the relevant data and have the virtual servers spun up and active. with 10 minutes I had a test sub-domain set up to start accepting http requests. So far I have a very basic PHP set up that has a list of commonly used URLs that I frequently use. Later I will upload all the development files I’m working on to the server and continue developing what I have been coding for my stats site. My goal is to get that done this weekend.<\/p>\n

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My main reason for doing this is I want move away from paying a one-time fee that spans several years for services I don’t use for all my sites. The hope is that it will actually cost less than what I am paying now plus I’ll have better site performance due to how GoDaddy runs their shared web hosting. I also want to set up my stats site to use HTTPS so that I make sure everything is more secure and improve my SEO results with search engines like Google since they place a higher value on secure sites. I also want to see about setting up a single service to work as a hot back-up for my MySQL Databases since MySQL has the option to perform data replication. The thought it to have all instances back up to another instance that might serve as a so-called hot swap system should an instance run into some sort of trouble.<\/p>\n

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Login Splash<\/p><\/div>\n

I’ve got a lot to work on though for this, as I need to learn how to navigate Ubuntu so that I can work around the command line a lot better. I also want to see about developing some pages to view stats like how much I have been charged throughout the billing period. GoDaddy has a bunch of API endpoints they have developed to perform a number of different tasks. I need to see about learning and understanding JSON and AJAX.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UPDATE:\u00a0GoDaddy is discontinuing Could Server service on 12\/31\/2017. We’re discontinuing GoDaddy Cloud Servers. Please retrieve or back up your content before\u00a0December 31, 2017. After this date, your GoDaddy Cloud Servers account will no…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seanhiatt.ws\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seanhiatt.ws\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seanhiatt.ws\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seanhiatt.ws\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seanhiatt.ws\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seanhiatt.ws\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seanhiatt.ws\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seanhiatt.ws\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seanhiatt.ws\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}