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    GoDaddy Container-as-a-Service (ElasticHosts, Springs.io), discontinued

    Score7.1 out of 10
    N/AGoDaddy supported container management and container-as-a-service products, including (since 2016) ElasticHosts and Springs.io (e.g. Elastic Containers), are discontinued under those brands as of June 2020. However, GoDaddy development services, SDKs, and other projects are now hosted at GoDaddy Engineering and some are available open source.N/A

    LXD

    Score9.9 out of 10
    N/ALXD is a system container and virtual machine manager. It offers a unified user experience around full Linux systems running inside containers or virtual machines. LXD is image based and provides images for a wide number of Linux distributions. It supports various use cases, with support for different storage backends and network types and the option to install on hardware ranging from an individual laptop or cloud instance to a full server rack. LXD is written in Go. It is free software…N/A
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    GoDaddy Container-as-a-Service (ElasticHosts, Springs.io), discontinuedLXD
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    GoDaddy Container-as-a-Service (ElasticHosts, Springs.io), discontinuedLXD
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsSprings.io is unlike other cloud hosting providers. Our reactive servers dynamically resize based on demand, and you only pay for your consumption, not your provisioning. This means you can save money and not sacrifice performance.—
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    GoDaddy Container-as-a-Service (ElasticHosts, Springs.io), discontinuedLXD
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    GoDaddy Container-as-a-Service (ElasticHosts, Springs.io), discontinuedLXD
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    Discontinued Products
    Unlike other providers, Springs doesn’t use a pre-built container solution, instead opting for their own software built from the ground up.
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    Open Source
    Linux Containers LXD works very well when you, as a software developer using Linux, need to spin up a development environment to build and work on a specific piece of software. For example, you need to build some software that is tested and developed target Ubuntu 18.04. You're able to quickly create a container for Ubuntu 18.04 and log into it to run commands and build your software. This is easier to do than setting a virtual machine - e.g - via Virtual Box, but is a lot clunkier than doing it via Docker containers which give you a much more flexible configuration of the environment and are easier to start, stop, connect and share with other developers.
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    Pros
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    • Container hosting, cloud virtualization
    • Elastic capacity scaling and pay-per-use billing
    • Linux kernel containerization technologies for container isolation and control
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    Open Source
    • GIT repositories.
    • Authentication servers.
    • Application instances.
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    Cons
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    • Provide more options at lower costs
    • It would be nice to see that expanded out to more distributions. What would be potentially even better though is templates. Some hosts can deploy ready-to-run WordPress/Drupal sites, LAMP instances, ownCloud instances, etc. at the drop of a hat. If Springs could replicate this with their container hosting they’d immediately appeal to a much, much wider audience;
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    Open Source
    • Ease of use.
    • Copying containers from one machine to another.
    • Creation of containers with config files similar to Docker.
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    Alternatives Considered
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    Springs is drastically cheaper than running 4 OVH servers, and a little cheaper than running nano instances on AWS.
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    Open Source
    Linux Containers LXD feels like a more primitive version of docker, docker-compose and similar projects from the docker ecosystem. The Dockerfile and docker-compose.yml methods of specifying a container setup, as well as the network and file configurations afforded by Docker make working with containers much easier and more reproducible than with Linux Containers LXD.
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    Return on Investment
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    • In the beginning I wasn’t sure what I should set it to for my web server, so I left it. After a while the Average usage area begins showing how much resource the container is demanding and from that more adequate limits can be set.
    • Springs is drastically cheaper than running 4 OVH servers, and a little cheaper than running nano instances on AWS.
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    Open Source
    • Save workload.
    • Save time.
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    GoDaddy Container-as-a-Service (ElasticHosts, Springs.io), discontinued Screenshots

    Screenshot of Springs are reactive servers which scale automatically to the load. That's why you don't need to pay for unused capacity at all.