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Reference Documentation

Detailed information about various elements of Brightbox.

CLI

The Command Line Interface.

Glossary

A quick lookup list of Brightbox terminology.

Cloud Servers

Cloud Servers are virtual machines.

Server Types

Server Types define the amounts of RAM, CPU and local storage allocated to Cloud Servers.

Cloud IPs

Dynamically movable Public IP addresses.

Load Balancers

High availability, fault tolerance and horizontal scalability for your applications.

Orbit

Highly durable and highly available distributed object storage.

Block Storage

Highly durable and highly available block storage volumes for Cloud Servers.

Cloud Firewall

Distributed firewall for controlling network access to, from and between Cloud Servers.

Cloud SQL

Cloud SQL instances are relational database servers you can build and manage via the API.

Network

General documentation about the Brightbox cloud network.

Image Library

Our Image Library holds all available Cloud Server images and snapshots, and Cloud SQL snapshots.

Server Images

A Cloud Server Image is a virtual disk image from which a Server can be created.

Authentication

Our API supports authentication of various types.

Metadata service

The Metadata service available to Cloud Servers.

API

Our RESTful HTTP API.

DNS

Our convenience DNS records and Cloud IP reverse dns support.

Accounts

All Brightbox services are provided through an Account.

Collaboration

Collaboration allows you to grant access to your account to other users.

Billing

Billing documentation

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