proper way to remove instances from marketplace

[echofs]

 

greetings -

 

I don't see this in the documentation.

 

If there are no current buyers using instances and we want to do maintenance on our provider setup without having our rating plummet, what is the canonical way to take ourselves out of the marketplace listing and avoid rating penalty while the machines are under maintenance?

 

regards

 

[Adam Boduch]

Hi,

That is a very good question. I haven't really thought about it till
now.

The easiest way to remove yourself from the market is to set all
hardware profile costs to $0.00. Theoretically, you could do this even
while you have running instances - you just won't get any new ones.

Regards,

Adam

[August Wohlt]

It appears that removing the hardware profiles does remove them from the marketplace within 15 minutes.

 

Will having no hardware profiles available adversely affect seller rating?

thanks!

On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 5:35 PM, August Wohlt <echofs.s...@gmail.com> wrote:

I don't think that will work. When attempting to set pricing for instances to 0.00, I receive hte following message:

 

Ensure this value is greater than or equal to 0.001.

Also, removing the hardware profiles from Hosting -> Hardware did not appear (at least immediately) to have removed it from the marketplace, either. 

 

So aside from setting the cost very high, are there any other options? 

[August Wohlt]

I don't think that will work. When attempting to set pricing for instances to 0.00, I receive hte following message:

 

Ensure this value is greater than or equal to 0.001.

Also, removing the hardware profiles from Hosting -> Hardware did not appear (at least immediately) to have removed it from the marketplace, either. 

 

So aside from setting the cost very high, are there any other options? 

 

On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 2:53 PM, Adam Boduch <adam....@gmail.com> wrote:

[Adam Boduch]

Hi,

Sorry about that. I forgot that once you set a price you can't go back
to 0.

Yes, SpotCloud will eventually detect missing hardware profiles and
remove them from the market. Also, you can just remove the read
permission on individual hardware profiles if you don't want to delete
them entirely. This should have the same effect.

Regards,

Adam