Gigahost Documentation
What Gigahost is
Section titled “What Gigahost is”Gigahost connects people who need virtual machines with independent providers
who have compute capacity available. You can use the platform as a customer, a
provider, or both: every account can rent instances and host them too. You
rent an instance on the website or with the
ghost command-line client, and pay for it from a balance funded in MMX.
Getting started
Section titled “Getting started”From nothing to an SSH session on your first instance.
Funding your accountSend MMX to activate the account and add funds later.
Pricing and billingEvery charge, when it is posted, and what a low balance does.
Using Gigahost
Section titled “Using Gigahost”Compare offerings and providers, then create an instance.
Connecting and networkingDedicated IP or Shared IP, gateways, ports, bandwidth and mail.
Managing instancesPower, console, reinstall, upgrade and delete.
Backups and restoreHosted and local backups, restores and new instances from them.
Accounts and securityThe account key, website login and password, key migration.
SupportOpen and follow support tickets.
Providers
Section titled “Providers”What a host needs, what it earns and promises, and the path to a payout.
Setting up a hostInstall, configure, enroll, and run a Gigahost KVM host.
Home modeOffer spare compute from a host behind a typical home Internet connection.
Cloud modeOffer capacity from a server with additional public IPv4 addresses.
Pricing and SLAThe sizes a host offers, its prices, and its SLA.
Operating a hostAdmission, incidents, updates, storage, capacity and retirement.
PayoutsThe payout address and payouts in MMX.