Launching a Public Cloud instance

Launching a new instance can be done in the Leaseweb Customer Portal or using the Leaseweb Public Cloud API.

Launching a Public Cloud instance from the Customer Portal

1. Go to your Leaseweb Customer Portal account.
2. From the menu, select Public Cloud and click Launch Instance.
3. Configure your instance on the Launch page

Configuring a new instance

1. Choose a region
   The region is the location where the instance will be launched. In order to switch to a different region, you are required to switch your account to the corresponding sales organization. You can do this by clicking on your profile icon in the top right corner.
   
2. Instance name
   The instance name is used to identify your instance from the list of all your instances.
   
3. Choose an Image
   An image is a template that contains the software configuration required to launch your instance. The offered images are Linux and Windows-based Operating Systems and App, like Plesk or cPanel pre-installed. You can choose a default operating system, provided by us, or a custom template created from an instance.
   
4. Choose the instance type
   An Instance defines the compute type and size of the instance, including CPU and RAM allocated to the instance. We provide a range of options to configure your instance to your work load use case.
   
5. User data
   By providing user data you can run arbitrary code on boot. Supported script formats are cloud-config for the cloud-init program and bash.
   
6. Key pair
   The public key is stored on your instances and enables you to authenticate with the server, without having to pass a user name and password.
   
7. Choose storage amount
   The storage per instance can go up to 5TB per drive. Launching an instance with local storage provides better I/O performance, but is not redundant in case of hardware failure. With central storage you get storage redundancy and quicker recovery time in case of a server or storage failure.
   
8. Contract and Payment
   By default the instance is launched with an hourly commit and can be destroyed at any moment. Choosing a monthly commit gives you a discounted price for the instance.
   • On demand instances (hourly) are billed post paid for the amount of hours it was active in that month.
   • Committed instances are billed prepaid with a prorate fee for the period prior to the committed period.
     
9. Click Launch
   The creation of the instance is started and will show up on the list page

Launching Public Cloud instance using the API

See more here: https://developer.leaseweb.com/api-docs/publiccloud_v1.html#operation/instance/launch