Overview
TurnKey SimpleMachines helps save you time and money by providing a ready-to-run SimpleMachines 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.
SimpleMachines provides an easy to use forum with many powerful features for you as well as your users. It features a powerful Package Manager, allowing you to quickly apply any of the hundreds of modifications in our database, as well as a variety of custom themes that change the way your site looks.
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/simplemachines for release notes.
Additional details
Usage instructions
System Initialization:
After creating EC2 instance, browse to http://<Public_DNS>/ for system initialization instructions.
Alternatively, log in via SSH as user 'admin' to the instance. Use the SSH keypair selected during launch.
This step is required to set sensitive passwords & install security updates. You may also be asked to set a domain name for your server. If a domain name for your server is required, then it must be a valid domain name (i.e. have DNS configured).
Accessing the software main web app
http://<Public_DNS>/
This may redirect to https and/or the domain set at initialisation.
OS commands via SSH
Log into the running instance via SSH as user 'admin', using the SSH keypair set at launch time. Use ‘sudo’ to run commands requiring root access.
Web based System Admin control panel
https://<Public_DNS>:12321
Browser warnings
TurnKey AMIs ship with self signed SSL/TLS certs, causing https warnings in your web browser. To remove the warnings, you will need to get a SSL/TLS cert signed by an authorized Certificate Authority (CA). The recommended way to do that is to get a free Let's Encrypt SSL certificate. To do that log in via SSH & run 'sudo confconsole' & Select:
Advanced >> Lets Encrypt >> Gen certFor more info see: https://www.turnkeylinux.org/docs/confconsole
More info
For more info specific to this instance, 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.