Feature #165

Add a way to set "power on" action

Added by admin about 7 years ago.

Status:New Start:2018-04-23
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Description

When the bare metal server that a VPS is on is booted, currently the following sequence of events happens:

  1. All suspended VPSes are restored
  2. All other VPSes are booted

There is no way to express that a VPS should not be booted, other than some gross hack like deliberately breaking its bootloader configuration.

More than once it has been the case that a customer has deliberately shut a VPS down (e.g. because it has been compromised) and then BitFolk has booted it again after a scheduled maintenance.

At minimum there should be a way to specify that the host "power on" behaviour is to leave the VPS off.

A more advanced feature could offer the following options:

  1. Always boot
  2. Leave shut down (require manual boot)
  3. Last status (boot if it was shut down, otherwise leave shut down)

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