Appendix B. Resources in Service Templates

This section explains what hosting resources you can include in service templates to provide various services to users.

Note:

  • Some resources are allotted on a per-subscription basis.
  • Some resources are allotted on a per-webspace basis.

A customer account can have several subscriptions; and each subscription can have one or more webspaces.

Name

Description

Measurement unit

DNS hosting This enables DNS hosting and specifies the limit on the number of domains that can be hosted at the provider's name servers. Domain name
DNS management This enables customers to manage DNS zones and specifies the limit on the number of domains whose zones they can manage. Domain name
Email accounts The total number of mailboxes that can be created per subscription. Mailbox
Email domains The total number of domains under which mail services can be set up, per subscription. Domain
Email storage (total) The total amount of disk space that can be used by all mailboxes under a subscription. Note that this is a soft quota. When you set a limit on this resource in a service template, it does not physically restrict the use of this resource, but it enables you to further set up overuse charges for the resource in service plans that are created based on this service template. Gigabyte
Generic Apache Web Hosting Template This is used for internal needs of your CloudBlue Commerce installation. Do not allocate this resource to users or subscriptions and do not change its default value.  
Generic Hosting Configuration (Linux Apache/Nginx)

This is used for internal needs of your CloudBlue Commerce installation. Do not allocate this resource to users or subscriptions and do not change its default value.

This resource is provisioned automatically. Do not change the provisioning settings for it.

n/a
HTTP Domain Redirect This is reserved for future uses. Do not allocate this resource to users or subscriptions and do not change its default value. n/a
HTTP Frame Forwarding This is reserved for future uses. Do not allocate this resource to users or subscriptions and do not change its default value. n/a
Hard disk quota for a webspace The hard quota on the maximum amount of disk space that can be used by a webspace. If it is exceeded, no more files can be uploaded to websites. Gigabyte

IP addresses

The total number of exclusive IPv4 addresses available in a customer’s subscription.

IP address

IPv6 addresses

The total number of exclusive IPv6 addresses available in a customer’s subscription.

IP address

Mail Hosting Template (Linux)

This is used for internal needs of your CloudBlue Commerce installation. Do not allocate this resource to users or subscriptions and do not change its default value.

 

n/a
Maximum bandwidth that can be used by all websites of a webspace (Linux Apache/Nginx) This restricts network usage by websites. Megabit per second
Maximum number of MySQL and PostgreSQL databases per webspace (Linux Apache/Nginx) The total number of MySQL and PostgreSQL databases that can be created per webspace Database
Maximum number of Microsoft SQL Server databases per webspace (only on Windows hosting) The total number of Microsoft SQL Server databases that can be created per webspace. Database
Maximum number of additional FTP accounts per webspace The maximum number of additional FTP accounts that can be created for a webspace. FTP account
Maximum number of concurrent HTTP connections to websites per webspace This is a limit on the number of connections to websites of a webspace. Connection
Maximum number of dedicated IIS application pools per webspace (only on Windows hosting) The maximum number of dedicated IIS application pools that can be created for a webspace. IIS application pool
Maximum size of a mailbox The maximum amount of disk space that can be occupied by each mailbox. Gigabyte
MySQL and PostgreSQL databases usage This resource is used by CloudBlue Commerce to calculate the total number of MySQL and PostgreSQL databases in a subscription. It does not restrict anything. Database
Plesk Apache Web Service

This is used for internal needs of your CloudBlue Commerce installation. Do not allocate this resource to users or subscriptions and do not change its default value.

This resource is provisioned automatically. Do not change the provisioning settings for it.

n/a
Plesk IIS Web Service This is used for internal needs of your CloudBlue Commerce installation. Do not allocate this resource to users or subscriptions and do not change its default value. This resource is provisioned automatically. Do not change the provisioning settings for it. n/a
Plesk Mail Service

This is used for internal needs of your CloudBlue Commerce installation. Do not allocate this resource to users or subscriptions and do not change its default value.

This resource is provisioned automatically. Do not change the provisioning settings for it.

n/a
Site without web hosting This specifies the total number of sites that can be used for email hosting. Site
Traffic This is used for internal needs of your CloudBlue Commerce installation. Do not allocate this resource to users or subscriptions and do not change its default value. n/a
Web Hosting General Limits

This is used for internal needs of your CloudBlue Commerce installation. Do not allocate this resource to users or subscriptions and do not change its default value.

This resource is provisioned automatically. Do not change the provisioning settings for it.

n/a
Web Hosting Service This is used for internal needs of your CloudBlue Commerce installation. Do not allocate this resource to users or subscriptions and do not change its default value. n/a
Web storage (Linux Apache/Nginx) The total amount of disk space that can be occupied by all websites of a subscription. Note that this is a soft quota. When you set a limit on this resource in a service template, it does not physically restrict the use of this resource, but it enables you to further set up overuse charges for the resource in service plans that are created based on this service template. Gigabyte
Web traffic (Linux Apache/Nginx) The total amount of data that can be transferred from all websites of a subscription during a calendar month. Note that this is a soft quota. When you set a limit on this resource in a service template, it does not physically restrict the use of this resource, but it enables you to further set up overuse charges for the resource in service plans that are created based on this service template. Gigabyte per month

Website

The total number of websites that can be created in a subscription, regardless of whether a site is created under a domain or a subdomain.

Website

Webspace

The total number of webspaces that can be created under a subscription.

Webspace

WordPress site

The total number of WordPress instances that can be installed under a subscription, regardless of whether WordPress is installed on a domain, subdomain, or a directory of a domain.

WordPress sites are counted separately from the Website resource.

WordPress installation