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New Windows Server 2003 & 2008 Images Added to GoGrid

Written by on Jan 28th, 2009 | Filed under: Cloud Computing, Features, General, GoGrid, Operating System
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Yesterday we released some new Windows Operating System images to the GoGrid Image repository. What is notable here is that GoGrid has extended our Windows Server breadth in the Cloud and we are the first to market with the ability to instantiate Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008 cloud servers with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Express, Standard and Workgroup editions. Also added is support for FastCGI.

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The following Windows Server images were added:

Windows Server 2008

  • Web Servers:
    • 32-bit with Internet Internet Information Services 7 (IIS7), FastCGI and Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express
    • 32-bit with IIS7, FastCGI and Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Express
  • Database Servers:
    • 64-bit with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Workgroup[1]
    • 64-bit with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Standard[2]

Windows Server 2003

  • Database Servers:
    • 64-bit with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Workgroup[3]
    • 64-bit with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Standard[4]

The full list of GoGrid Operating Systems and Images can be found either on the GoGrid site or the GoGrid wiki. For your convenience, here is the list of currently available Operating Systems and Images:

Windows Server 2008

  • New!! Windows Server 2008 32 bit IIS7 + Fast CGI + MSSQL 2005 express
  • New!! Windows Server 2008 32 bit IIS7 + Fast CGI + MSSQL 2008 express
  • New!! Windows Server 2008 (64-bit) w/ MSSQL 2008 Workgroup
  • New!! Windows Server 2008 (64-bit) w/ MSSQL 2008 Standard
  • Windows Server 2008 (32-bit) w/ IIS 7.0 + PHP 5.2 + MSSQL 2005 Express
  • Windows Server 2008 (32-bit) w/ IIS 7.0 + PHP 5.2 + ASP.NET + MSSQL 2005 Express
  • Windows Server 2008 (32-bit) w/ IIS 7.0 + PHP 5.2 + MySQL 5.0
  • Windows Server 2008 (32-bit) w/ Apache 2.2 + PHP 5.2 + MSSQL 2005 Express
  • Windows Server 2008 (32-bit)
  • Windows Server 2008 (32-bit) w/ IIS 7.0
  • Windows Server 2008 (32-bit) w/ IIS 7.0 + MSSQL 2005 Express
  • Windows Server 2008 (32-bit) w/ IIS 7.0 + ASP.NET + MSSQL 2005 Express
  • Windows Server 2008 (64-bit)
  • Windows Server 2008 (64-bit) w/ IIS 7.0
  • Windows Server 2008 (64-bit) w/ IIS 7.0 + MSSQL 2005 Express
  • Windows Server 2008 (64-bit) w/ IIS 7.0 + ASP.NET + MSSQL 2005 Express

Windows Server 2003

  • New!! Windows Server 2003 (64-bit) w/ MSSQL 2008 Workgroup
  • New!! Windows Server 2003 (64-bit) w/ MSSQL 2008 Standard
  • Windows Server 2003 (32-bit) w/ IIS 6.0
  • Windows Server 2003 (32-bit) w/ IIS 6.0 + ASP.NET + MS SQL Server 2005 Express
  • Windows Server 2003 (32-bit) w/ MS SQL Server 2005 Express
  • Windows Server 2003 (32-bit) w/ MSSQL 2005 Workgroup
  • Windows Server 2003 (32-bit) w/ MSSQL 2005 Standard
  • Windows Server 2003 (64-bit) w/ IIS 6.0
  • Windows Server 2003 (64-bit) w/ IIS 6.0 + ASP.NET + MS SQL Server 2005 Express
  • Windows Server 2003 (64-bit) w/ MSSQL 2005 Express

CentOS Linux

  • CentOS 4.4 (32-bit) w/ Apache 2.2 + PHP5
  • CentOS 4.4 (32-bit) w/ MySQL 5.0
  • CentOS 4.5 (32-bit) w/ Ruby on Rails
  • CentOS 4.5 (32-bit) w/ PostgreSQL 8.2
  • CentOS 5.1 (64-bit) w/ Apache 2.2
  • CentOS 5.1 (64-bit) w/ Apache 2.2 + PHP 5.1
  • CentOS 5.1 (64-bit) w/ Apache 2.2 + PHP 5.1 + MySQL 5.0
  • CentOS 5.1 (64-bit) w/ MySQL 5.0
  • CentOS 5.1 (64-bit) w/ PostgreSQL 8.1

Red Hat Enterprise Linux

  • RHEL 4 (32-bit) w/ Apache 2.2 + PHP5
  • RHEL 4 (32-bit) w/ Apache 2.2 + MySQL 5.0 + PHP 5.2
  • RHEL 4 (32-bit) w/ MySQL 5.0
  • RHEL 4 (32-bit) w/ PostgreSQL 8.2
  • RHEL 5.1 (64-bit) w/ Apache 2.2
  • RHEL 5.1 (64-bit) w/ Apache 2.2 + PHP 5.1
  • RHEL 5.1 (64-bit) w/ Apache 2.2 + PHP 5.1 + MySQL 5.0
  • RHEL 5.1 (64-bit) w/ MySQL 5.0
  • RHEL 5.1 (64-bit) w/ PostgreSQL 8.1

The GoGrid API which was recently put under a Creative Commons license has also been updated to support these new images.

The addition of the FastCGI component opens a new framework for high performance and reliability. FastCGI provides a high-performance alternative to the Common Gateway Interface (CGI) which is a typical way of linking external applications with Web Servers.

Currently GoGrid has 26 Windows images (16 Windows Server 2008 and 10 Windows Server 2003) and 19 Linux images (9 CentOS and 9 Red Hat Enterprise Linux). We will be continually growing this list as well as adding new Linux Operating Systems soon.

About the author

Michael Sheehan Michael Sheehan is the Technology Evangelist for GoGrid & "Editor in Chief" as well. He handles digital media marketing, online audience development, PR, media relations, content creation and editing as well as a variety of other tasks. He is also an avid social media pundit and technology blogger.

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3 Responses to “New Windows Server 2003 & 2008 Images Added to GoGrid”

  1. Cloud Droplets #52 - Even Lazy Jellyfish, do it. Let’s Fall in Clouds | IT Management and Cloud Blog, on January 30th, 2009 at 5:38 am Said:

    [...] GoGrid New Windows Instances [...]

  2. Tin tức game online, on May 29th, 2009 at 10:13 pm Said:

    This is really interesting, i'd love to go grid. Lets see what our board think about this ?

  3. Thương Mại Điện Tử, on August 4th, 2009 at 11:42 am Said:

    Outstanding services, I would surely choose one for us

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