Account and Workspace
An account is the user account a person uses to access Hostly.
A workspace is an independent administration, plan, and billing area within Hostly. Services, domains, members, resource usage, and limits are assigned to a workspace.
Relationship between account and workspace
An account can contain multiple workspaces.
Account
├── Workspace A
│ ├── own Domain
│ ├── own Pricing Plan
│ ├── own Usage
│ └── own Services
└── Workspace B
├── own Domain
├── own Pricing Plan
├── own Usage
└── own ServicesWorkspaces in the same account are treated separately for product and billing purposes.
Resources
Hostly measures resources per workspace, not per account.
This means:
- A plan (Free or Paid) is assigned to a workspace
- Resource usage and limits are measured per workspace; workspaces do not affect each other
- Services consume the resource budget of their workspace, meaning services in Workspace A do not count toward resource usage in Workspace B
- Multiple workspaces in the same account can have different plans and usage values, for example services in Workspace A can use the Free Tier while Workspace B runs on the Paid Tier
- An additional user is not automatically an additional billing unit, because plans are tied to the workspace and not to the user
Members and permissions
A workspace can be made accessible to multiple users. Members and their permissions belong to the respective workspace.
As a result, one user can work in multiple workspaces with different roles or permissions without those workspaces sharing plan or usage data.
| Permission | Description |
|---|---|
| manageDeployments | Allows a user to manage deployments |
| viewDeployments | Allows a user to view deployments and the related dashboard |
| manageSettings | Allows a user to change workspace settings, including the plan |
| manageSecrets | Allows a user to change deployment secrets |
Workspace domain
Each workspace has its own domain area under hostly.ninja.
The workspace domain fragment:
examplebecomes the workspace domain:
example.hostly.ninjaThe workspace domain fragment is globally unique. The workspace and its domain fragment currently cannot be renamed, but another workspace with its own domain fragment can be created.
Services in the workspace
A service always belongs to exactly one workspace. This means, among other things:
- The service domain is based on the workspace domain
- Resource usage is assigned to the workspace
- Available capabilities depend on the workspace plan
- The service domain fragment must be unique within the workspace