Getting started with Tonic Ephemeral
To get started in Tonic Ephemeral, you create an Ephemeral account.
On Ephemeral Cloud, each new Ephemeral account starts as a two-week free trial to allow you to get a feel for Ephemeral and how it works before you purchase it. The free trial provides access to all of the Ephemeral features and functions. It does limit the allocated storage for your Ephemeral databases to 100 GB each.
On a self-hosted instance, users can also create accounts.
A regular paid self-hosted or Ephemeral Cloud account does not expire.
About Ephemeral organizations
Every user belongs to an Ephemeral organization.
Users who belong to the same organization can see all of the databases for that organization.
Ephemeral Cloud
By default, when you create an Ephemeral Cloud account, Ephemeral also creates an organization for your account.
You might want all of the users that have your company email domain to be added to the same organization. To enable this behavior, contact Ephemeral support.
When Ephemeral Cloud ties an email domain to a specific organization, then when a user with that email creates an Ephemeral account, Ephemeral adds them to that organization.
Self-hosted Ephemeral
On a self-hosted instance of Ephemeral, all users belong to a single organization.
Creating your account
In Tonic Structural, when you choose to write data generation output to Ephemeral, an account is created for if you do not already have one.
To create an Ephemeral account:
For Ephemeral Cloud, go to the Ephemeral signup page. On a self-hosted instance, go to the login page for the instance.
Provide the account information:
In the First Name and Last Name fields, type your first and last names.
In the Email Address field, type your email address.
In the Password field, type the password that you want to use for your Ephemeral account.
In the Confirm Password field, type the password again.
Click Sign Up. Ephemeral sends an activation email to the email address that you provided.
In the activation email, click Activate account. Ephemeral activates your account and then displays the Ephemeral login page.
Provide your email address and password, then click Log In. Ephemeral displays the Databases page.
Next steps after a free trial
During the free trial, Ephemeral indicates the time remaining, and provides links to contact Ephemeral sales or request an Ephemeral demo.
When the free trial period ends, you can no longer start a new database. Ephemeral also deactivates your existing databases.
Last updated