Around these parts, we eat our own dog food. The dashboard, for example, interacts with the API just as you might. Consider the drive copy command, which is triggered by clicking the yellow “copy” button on any unmounted drive.
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What if you’ve already purchased a Windows license? Or, what if you want to run a version of Windows other than those we offer? In either case, you might elect to bring your own OS.
I’m going to demonstrate how to upload an ISO and install from it. For this example, I’m going to use Windows 7. But, these instructions should get you through the installation of any OS. They are, in fact, how we upload our pre-installed images.
While we have decent selection of Linux and Windows pre-installed servers available, there are enough Linux builds to fill a Panamax freighter with DVDs. And, while we have Windows servers, we’ve only a few and they require that you pay the licensing costs through us.
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This post might also be called, “How to Install Cygwin for Use With Open Hosting’s API…” Cygwin is a Unix-like environment and command-line interface for Microsoft Windows. And, it is the easiest path to our API from a Windows machine. A correctly installed and configured Cygwin will allow you to exercise the entire API library just as easily from Windows as from Linux or OSX. There are three parts to this tutorial: installing Cygwin, installing the API scripts, and configuring a Cygwin session to connect with the API. |
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Among the new features launched today: an FTP service that allows users to upload and download drives from their accounts.
We’re often asked if existing servers, operating systems, or ISOs can be uploaded into an account. And, so many times we say, Yes, by way of the “API. Or, if the image is very modest in size, use the ‘upload’ button on the drive-detail page.” But, mostly, folks do want to move large files and understandably don’t want to bothered with the API.
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Admittedly, it took longer than we expected. But, in the end, it is better than we planned.
Open Hosting’s API-based Backup (or, “OAB” for short) is pretty cool. Basically, if you run a server based on one of our pre-installed Linux images, all you need to do is install a few packages, edit OAB’s config file, and you’re set. And, for those of you building servers on our new CentOS 5.6 pre-installed image, you’ll only need to edit OAB’s config file.
In addition to being useful as it is, OAB’s code is worth studying and modifying for your own projects that interact with our API.
Please email code@openhosting.com to request OAB. Eventually, OAB will make its way to Github.
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Our forthcoming backup solution (OAB) is getting new features:
1) Two-mode operation: zero-state or incremental
2) Remote command invocation
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