Month: April 2021

bookmark_borderAnnouncing AMD Ryzen 5950X powered SSD VPS Now Available!

Posted on by crowncloud

Greetings,

We’re happy to announce a brand new SSD KVM product line powered by the Ryzen 9 5950X series processors, these are some of the fastest CPUs available on the market with impressive single and multi-core benchmark scores which help improve overall application performance.

To start off with, we have our new plans available at Los Angeles, USA (US-West), in the coming weeks, we will focus on expanding these offerings to our other datacenter locations as well. Please feel free to contact our support team to register any interest in these plans at our other locations.

Our new AMD Ryzen 9 5950X series powered plans start with an introductory price of $8/month.

The plans include the following, 

  • AMD Ryzen 9 5950X series processor
  • SSD powered storage for fast disk performance
  • Control Panel to manage the operation of your VPS (boot/shutdown/reboot/reinstall and much more!)
  • 1 Dedicated IPv4 and /64 IPv6 Subnet.
  • The ability to upgrade your existing plan easily at any time.
  • rDNS support included for both IPv4 and IPv6.
  • 1 Gbit/sec uplink on all nodes for fast network transfer.
  • 1 Free Snapshot Slot (user can create/restore snapshot via the control panel at any time)
  • In-House 24×7 Support.

To check out our new AMD Ryzen powered plans visit our website at – Click here

At the same time, we remain open to custom plans on this new platform, if you have a custom RAM/HDD/Bandwidth/CPU Core requirement, please feel free to contact our support team via the client-area or at support@crowncloud.net and we’ll do our best to create a plan tailored to your requirement. 

Stay tuned for further updates!

bookmark_borderAnnouncing AMD Ryzen 5950X powered SSD VPS Coming soon!

Posted on by crowncloud

Greetings,

We’re happy to announce a brand new SSD KVM product line powered by the Ryzen 9 5950X series processors, these are some of the fastest CPUs available on the market with impressive single and multi-core benchmark scores which help improve overall application performance.

To start off with, we have our new plans coming soon at Los Angeles, USA (US-West), later, we will focus on expanding these offerings to our other datacenter locations as well. Please feel free to contact our support team to register any interest in these plans at our other locations.

Our new AMD Ryzen 9 5950X series powered plans start with an introductory price of $8/month.

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The plans include the following, 

  • AMD Ryzen 9 5950X series processor
  • SSD powered storage for fast disk performance
  • Control Panel to manage the operation of your VPS (boot/shutdown/reboot/reinstall and much more!)
  • 1 Dedicated IPv4 and /64 IPv6 Subnet.
  • The ability to upgrade your existing plan easily at any time.
  • rDNS support included for both IPv4 and IPv6.
  • 1 Gbit/sec uplink on all nodes for fast network transfer.
  • 1 Free Snapshot Slot (user can create/restore snapshot via the control panel at any time)
  • In-House 24×7 Support.

Stay tuned for further updates!

bookmark_borderSnapshots Restore Progress Bar Available Now!

Posted on by crowncloud

Hey There,

We’re happy to announce the Progress bar for Snapshot Restores! available in our control panel.

On this CrownPanel update, we’ve added a progress bar to the interface to make snapshot restores clearer and more informative, giving you a good idea of what’s happening within the restore process.

This progress bar will appear on the interface when any snapshot restore task is issued and update itself as the restore progresses ahead.

The above feature is available for all users in the control panel.

Stay tuned for more updates!

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bookmark_borderInstalling Ubuntu 21.04 Beta on your VPS

Posted on by crowncloud

Hello,

In this week’s feature highlight, we look at How to install Ubuntu 21.04 Beta on your VPS

Ubuntu 21.04 (also codenamed “Hirsute Hippo”) Beta is out for Desktop and Server. Stable version is due to be released on April 22, 2021 which will be the latest stable release of Ubuntu after 20.10.

Ubuntu 21.04 Beta Ships with stable Linux 5.11.x kernel along with Python 3.9 as the default version.

Login to Crownpanel

Login to your CrownPanel (https://crownpanel.com/)

To start the installation, First we mount the Ubuntu 21.04 Beta ISO.

To mount the ISO click on CD-ROM and then select the “ubuntu-21.04-beta-live-server-amd64” ISO from the drop-down menu and click on “Mount” button (It will take 2-3 minutes).

Once the ISO has mounted (Task Log tab will show the status of the task), navigate to “Power Control” tab and then perform a Shutdown and Boot task on the server.

Next, Switch to the “VNC” Tab, Launch VNC to start the installation.

If VNC doesn’t show the Ubuntu 21.04 installer, please click on CTRL+ALT+DEL from the VNC console to send a reboot.

Start the Installation

Select the desired language and click on continue.

Select the desired keyboard layout and click on done.

Select the Network configuration and click done.

You can either set up a static network configuration or simply go ahead with DHCP (Simply press ENTER here)

You can configure proxy for the server in this part of the process if needed. Ideally, in most cases you don’t need to, just leave it blank and proceed.

Next, in the mirror selection we keep the default mirror address that Ubuntu detects for us,

Disk partitioning, we can go ahead with “Use an entire disk (X)”

Review the “partitions” and then proceed.

Confirm and press continue.

Profile setup, fill the form and press enter.

The details entered below (username, password etc) would be used for SSH as well!

We will check this package since OpenSSH server package is essential if you need to connect using a PuTTY.

The Ubuntu 21.04 Beta installer also has other packages available for pre-install, you can pick any you wish to pre-install on your server, in this guide we will keep it at bare minimal (ie, no extra packages selected),

At this stage, Ubuntu will start the installation to the disk.

Once the install is complete, go ahead with the reboot.

After you select to reboot the VPS, Ubuntu will prompt you to unmount the installation medium.

To unmount the ISO, switch back to CrownPanel, Select the “CD-ROM” tab and click on “Unmount”.

Next, switch back to the VNC Window, and press ENTER to reboot the VPS,

The VPS will then reboot into your installation of Ubuntu 21.04 Beta

This completes the installation of Ubuntu 21.04 Beta

You can now login to the server using the credentials that were set earlier (under the “Profile setup” part of this guide)

Sample Output:

crown@IPADDRESS password:
Welcome to Ubuntu Hirsute Hippo (development branch) (GNU/Linux 5.11.0-13-generi            c x86_64)

 * Documentation:  https://help.ubuntu.com
 * Management:     https://landscape.canonical.com
 * Support:        https://ubuntu.com/advantage

  System information as of Mon Apr 12 06:38:34 PM UTC 2021

In this guide,

bookmark_borderSnapshots restore Progress bar Coming Soon!

Posted on by crowncloud

Hey There!

We’ve been working on a new design for our control panel and we’re glad to unveil the first redesigned feature today — A Progress bar for snapshot restores!

As seen in the above Gif, we’ve added a progress bar to the interface to make snapshot restores clearer and more informative, giving you a good idea of what’s happening within the restore process.

This progress bar will appear on the interface when any snapshot restore task is issued and update itself as the restore progresses ahead.

The above feature will be available in the coming days for all users in the control panel. We’ll post an additional update here once it’s available.

Stay tuned for more previews to come soon of the other new redesigned parts of the interface!

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