Creating a trial account
The easiest way to get started with Altinity.Cloud is to sign up for a trial account. To get started on your Altinity.Cloud journey, sign up for a 14-day Altinity.Cloud trial account at acm.altinity.cloud/signup. You’ll see this dialog:
Figure 1 - Signing up for a trial account with an email address
There are two ways to sign up. You can enter your name and email address or sign up through Google or Okta. Choose either option and click the box to accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. When you’re ready, click CONTINUE. If everything worked, you’ll be asked to check your email:
Figure 2 - “Check your email” message
Your inbox (or spam folder) should have something like this:
Figure 3 - The validation email
Click the link in the email, then set your password:
Figure 4 - Setting your password
Your password must be at least 12 characters. When your password is set, click CONFIRM. You’ll be taken to the Environment Setup dialog in the Altinity Cloud Manager (ACM):
Figure 5 - The ACM’s Environment Setup dialog
Once you choose a cloud provider in the Environment Setup dialog, you can create an Altinity.Cloud environment in our cloud account (think ClickHouse aaS) or in your cloud account (you give us very specific permissions to access your account). With the environment set up, it’s easy to create and manage ClickHouse clusters.
For complete details on setting up your environment, see the Creating an Environment page.
Limitations of a trial account
As you would expect, a trial account has some limitations:
- Time - Your trial is for 14 days
- vCPUs - 16
- Storage - 1 TB
If you need to extend your trial, contact us for help.
Converting your trial to a paid subscription
This is quick and painless; see the Converting a trial account to a paid subscription page for all the details.
Towards the end of the trial
Every time you log in, you’ll get a message at the top of the ACM reminding you how many days are left in your trial:
Figure 6 – Notification that your trial will expire soon
If you want to continue working with Altinity.Cloud, you have two options:
- Convert the trial to a paid subscription by clicking the activate link. The documentation on converting a trial to a paid account has all the details.
- Contact Altinity to extend the trial by clicking the support[at]altinity.com link.
Once your trial has expired
If your trial has expired, you’ll go to the Billing page when you log in. You can then convert your trial to a paid subscription if you want.
Whether you choose to convert your trial account or not, your data is still there and your ClickHouse clusters are still running, but you won’t be able to manage your ClickHouse clusters through the ACM. You won’t be able to do a DELETE operation, but other operations (and any applications you’ve written to use the cluster) will still work. )