If you purchased at least one product or service from us in the last 12 months, you now have the opportunity to test Gandi Simple Hosting free of charge with no restriction on the instance type or size. Yes, that's right - no restriction!
If at the end of the 5 days you liked the experience and want to keep using your instance, all you need to do is renew it, selecting the size and subscription length you want.
If you prefer to choose another product, simply let the trial terminate. The date is set by default at creation day + 5 days, so there really is no charge (and no hidden charges).
Here's a tip: If you just registered a domain with Gandi for the first time, don' t forget that a -50% coupon off a one year subscription to Simple Hosting is waiting in your Gandi interface (look under Billing/Promos). If that's you, you are welcome to use this coupon to renew your instance at the end of your 5 day free trial (note that you will need to select 1 year of Simple Hosting to validate this offer).
Now, how do you get to the 5 gratis days? Nothing easier : go to www.gandi.net/hosting/simple, and create the instance using the pack and size you would like to try. After we identify you, our system will check if you qualify for a 5 day trial and will automatically update your purchase amount to "zero".
Note that this offer applies to Gandi customers who do not own a Simple Hosting instance yet and is limited to 1 trial per person.
Since the launch of our Simple Hosting offer, we have not offered our usual price rate system that is in place for the majority of other Gandi services.
Today, with a visibility over the first 18 months of Simple Hosting's existence, and well over 30,000 websites hosted on this service, we have a clear view of the market. This allows us to propose better rates to our large customers and resellers, depending on their rate scale.
As a reminder on how Gandi's price rates work: The price rates are automatically applied to your handle depending on the total amount of purchases you have made at Gandi during the last 12 months. If, for example, this amount is greater than $600, you would be given B rates. $2,000 gives you C rates, $6,000 D rates, and finally, $12,000 grants you E rates.
For Simple Hosting, this translates to:
- B rates: a 10% discount on all packs - C rates: a 20% discount - D rates: a 30% discount - E rates: a 40% discount
It should be noted, however that the 50% reduction for your first annual instance is only valid for those with A, B, and C rates.
How can you resell Simple Hosting? You can create instances via our website or through our API. Once created, you can:
- install content for your customers, - give them the sFTP logins and those of local administration page.
Git is now available for you to push and upload your code to your Simple Hosting website. The system is currently in beta testing (to evaluate the load), and is reserved to instances in the Paris datacenter (we are waiting for machines to arrive at the Baltimore datacenter).
You can access it via the Access table on your Instance's management page. Complete information is available in our wiki at http://wiki.gandi.net/en/simple/git
PHP/PostgreSQL is the second instance family available on our Simple Hosting cloud platform. PHP/PostgreSQL instances costs the same as PHP/MySQL ones (starting at $5 excl. VAT per month), and also has the special 50% discount promo for domain name customers at Gandi.
The version of PHP is 5.4, and PgSql is 9.2. These versions will be upgraded as time goes on.
Other instance families, with other languages, will be available soon!
You are now able to schedule snapshots for your Simple Hosting instance. Just like snapshots for your cloud VPS servers, you must subscribe to additional disk space in order to store the snapshots that were taken.
The Snapshot profile for your Simple Hosting instance only consumes 30% of the total disk size of the target instance. Therefore, if you have an instance of 10GB, you will need to subscribe to 3 additional GB. You are able to acquire these additional GB during the activation of the snapshot on the instance in question as it is integrated into the process.
The profile takes snapshots as follows:
1 snapshot per day
1 snapshot per week
1 snapshot per month
Caution: Please note that snapshots do not take into account any databases!
To learn more about the snapshot procedure for Simple Hosting, please visit our wiki pages.
