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HA Groups: Keep Redundant VMs on Separate Hosts
Two web servers behind a load balancer look redundant on a diagram. But if both VMs happen to land on the same physical host, one hardware fault takes out both, and you usually find that out during the outage. HA Groups fix this. Put VMs that back each other up in a group, and…
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Floating IPs With VRRP: Shared Virtual IPs for Keepalived Failover
If you’ve run high availability on Linux, you know the pattern. Two servers share a virtual IP, and VRRP decides which one holds it. When the active server fails, the standby claims the address within seconds, and clients keep connecting to the same IP. You can now build that on…
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Ubuntu Desktop Template: A Remote Desktop Without the Windows License
Plenty of people run a Windows server in the cloud for one reason: they want a desktop they can reach from anywhere. They browse the web, keep a few sites logged in, or work from a fixed IP address. A Windows Server license, billed every hour, is a lot to pay for that. Our new……
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NVMe-Backed Object Storage Is Here: S3 Buckets for Production Data
Object Storage is now live at Togglebox, in both our Dallas and Philadelphia clouds. It is standard S3 on NVMe-backed storage. If you already run Cloud VPS with us, adding it takes one click and costs nothing until you store your first byte. Fast enough for production data Most…
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Upgrade Mode and Rescue Mode: Two New Safety Nets for Your VPS
Two moments make any admin nervous: starting a big in-place upgrade, and staring at a machine that will not boot. Cloud VPS now has a feature for each. Upgrade Mode gives you a way back before you touch anything. Rescue Mode gets you in after something breaks. Upgrade Mode: a…
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The Togglebox API and MCP Server: Your Whole Account, Scriptable
Everything you can do in the Togglebox client portal, you can now do over HTTP. The Togglebox API is a REST API that covers the whole account: services, billing, cloud infrastructure, DNS, domains, object storage, SSL certificates, and support. The full interactive reference…
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The Activity Log: A Full History of Every Action in Your Cloud
When something changes in your infrastructure, the first question is always the same: what happened, and who did it? The client area now answers that directly. The new Activity Log keeps a complete chronological record of every action in your cloud service, and clearer…
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Swap NIC, Floating IPs, and Self-Serve Networking
A batch of networking updates just landed in the client area. Most of them share a theme: things that used to need a support ticket are now buttons. Swap NIC: move an identity between VMs Migrating to a new server usually ends with the nervous part: getting the old machine’s…
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Per-VM DRaaS, Reusable Volumes, and Backups on Your Schedule
Three updates to how you protect and move your data, all live now in the client area. DRaaS per VM, no separate account You can now turn disaster recovery protection on or off for each virtual machine. DRaaS storage used to require a separate account. That requirement is gone.…
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Reinstall With a New OS, and Tags to Keep VMs Organized
Two quality-of-life updates for anyone running more than a couple of VMs. Rebuilds that do not mean starting over, and a way to keep a growing fleet findable. Reinstall and change OS in one step Reinstalling a VM now lets you switch to a different operating system at the same…