Overview
TurnKey Vanilla forum helps save you time and money by providing a ready-to-run Vanilla forum solution that is secure, supported and easy to maintain. The system auto-updates itself with security fixes and is built in a transparent 100% open source process free of hidden backdoors.
Vanilla allows you to create a customized community that rewards positive participation, automatically curates content and lets members drive moderation. We believe that online communities should be unique, intuitive and engaging.
Highlights
- Secure, supported and easy to maintain: auto-updated daily with latest security patches. Bundled support for no extra charge.
- Free from hidden backdoors and vendor lock-in: transparent 100% opensource build of Debian GNU/Linux with no proprietary components or secret sauce.
- Free 1-click backup, restore and migrate: bundled backup software saves changes to files, databases and package management to encrypted storage which servers can be automatically restored from.
Details
Typical total price
$0.043/hour
Pricing
Instance type | Product cost/hour | EC2 cost/hour | Total/hour |
|---|---|---|---|
t2.nano | $0.00 | $0.006 | $0.006 |
t2.micro AWS Free Tier | $0.02 | $0.012 | $0.032 |
t2.small Recommended | $0.02 | $0.023 | $0.043 |
t2.medium | $0.02 | $0.046 | $0.066 |
t2.large | $0.02 | $0.093 | $0.113 |
m3.medium | $0.02 | $0.067 | $0.087 |
m3.large | $0.02 | $0.133 | $0.153 |
m3.xlarge | $0.02 | $0.266 | $0.286 |
m3.2xlarge | $0.02 | $0.532 | $0.552 |
m4.large | $0.02 | $0.10 | $0.12 |
Additional AWS infrastructure costs
Type | Cost |
|---|---|
EBS General Purpose SSD (gp2) volumes | $0.10/per GB/month of provisioned storage |
Vendor refund policy
90 day money back guarantee if you are not fully satisfied.
Legal
Vendor terms and conditions
Content disclaimer
Delivery details
64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
An AMI is a virtual image that provides the information required to launch an instance. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances are virtual servers on which you can run your applications and workloads, offering varying combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking resources. You can launch as many instances from as many different AMIs as you need.
Version release notes
Please see https://www.turnkeylinux.org/updates/core for release notes common to all our images and https://www.turnkeylinux.org/updates/vanilla for notes specifc to this one.
Additional details
Usage instructions
System Initialization:
After creating an EC2 instance with 1-Click, browse to http://<Public_DNS>/ for system initialization instructions (or SSH as user 'admin' to the running instance). This step is required to install security updates and set sensitive passwords.
Accessing the software
Main web app:http://<Public_DNS>/ (Note:some instances will redirect to https and/or the domain set at initialisation)
OS commands via SSH:SSH as user 'admin' to the running instance and use sudo to run commands requiring root access.
OS commands via web terminal:https://<Public_DNS>:12320 Login with username 'admin' and the password you set during system initialization.
System control panel:https://<Public_DNS>:12321
Note:You may need to ignore scary browser warnings when accessing this instance's https interfaces until you replace the randomly generated self-signed SSL certificate with an SSL certificate signed by an authorized Certificate Authority. To get a free Let's Encrypt SSL certificate, please see Confconsole >> Advanced >> Lets Encrypt. See https://www.turnkeylinux.org/docs/confconsole for more info.
For more info visit the product homepage:
Support
Vendor support
E-mail support is provided through the TurnKey Hub at no additional cost. Once you sign up to the TurnKey Hub, your AWS marketplace subscription will be automatically identified. support@turnkeylinux.org
AWS infrastructure support
AWS Support is a one-on-one, fast-response support channel that is staffed 24x7x365 with experienced and technical support engineers. The service helps customers of all sizes and technical abilities to successfully utilize the products and features provided by Amazon Web Services.
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Customer reviews
Cannot connect
The seller's instructions for connection don't work, and if I cannot log into the instance then I can't use it. The seller should do some troubleshooting with a user and fix or clarify the instructions.
I have plenty of experience with EC2 and marketplace images, and I'm quite experienced with debugging connection issues.
Doesn't work with email
Email support (user email verification, etc.)doesn't work. No documentation about how to get it to work with email. Not turnkey, clearly.