Francisco
Francisco
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Oakley Capital agrees sale of WebPros (cPanel, Plesk, WHMCS, SolusVM) to CVC Fund VII Francisco
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should include the properties that webpros owns ;) Better SEO too. Francisco
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Yikes. Francisco
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https://www.cvc.com/media/press-releases/2019/oakley-capital-agrees-sale-webpros-cvc-fund-vii-follow-on-investment She's dead Jim. @AnthonySmith can I get my main post & title edited? Francisco
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CentOS 7. I'll be very surprised if DA supports much more than CentOS and probably FreeBSD by this time next year. Francisco
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I thought this was another CC thread. Carry on. Francisco
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ARIN lets you put whatever you want, you can even just make a record that says 'CUSTOMER ALLOCATED BLOCK' for privacy reasons. Thing is, Colocrossing has a long history of forging SWIP records for the purpose of fattening their records. There was the Kris guy on LET that worked for HudsonValleyHost (before CC bought it)…
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Right, there's always a breaking point. I know @smarthost has given his opinion of 'fuck that noise' on any sort of per-core pricing, as has @MikeA, but what is your break point? Any cost more than $1/month/core? Francisco
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I'm so confused about the girls in there. Solus has a lot of features that no one uses. I don't know a single customer that uses the PXE system for instance. Infact almost no host that's renting servers is going to be able to use that since the packets are likely getting dropped. I think the bigger issue is for people to…
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Poor @Nick getting fed to the wolves because his bosses are a bunch of shitbags. Francisco
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Honest to god opinion? No, at least in my eyes. Virtualizor does some completly wacky things in how they built their system. Its really really really easy for nodes to become out of sync because they try to run a multi-master like setup. There's plenty of massive bugs and it seems that they don't do proper version control…
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Wait seriously? Francisco
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These were rumored but no emails been sent about them. Too fucking funny. So 25 total. Wow. Francisco
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You have OpenVZ still, no? If so, your options are nil. Even Proxmox only supports it on v3 which dates back to before OpenVZ 7 was even in BETA. Best you can all hope for is that Solus comes in at < $3/month/core or less. I don't see $2.00/m/core happening since then people would just use more E3's and be paying less…
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Yeah, that's basically what I meant by "proof of concept". WHMCS & Solus are going to be the main places they can milk. Francisco
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They've been doing this for a while. Plenty of offers get put up as "Los Angeles Datacenter", "Dallas Datacenter", etc, but its just CC. Sometimes they list the building address instead. They never mention its CC when they do that though. Francisco
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ReliableSite ryzen' their prices. I'll be here all week. Francisco
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We upgraded our OpenVZ 6 nodes to OpenVZ 7. I have too many users using really old installs, or installs that have had 3 - 4 rounds of random patches to make it 'sorta' work that KVM conversations were never reliable, or even possible. We simply 4x'd everyones resources to put them inline with Slices (OVZ's being better…
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There's paid licenses for it, I just can't find a copy of it. From what I remember the paid addon was like $15 and it was if you wanted to offer a managed DNS offering without shared hosting. Francisco
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I've yet to see a clean upgrade. I've had a bunch of users try but it seems GLIBC doesn't go on properly. Francisco
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Not sure how confident they are to raise prices given Magic Transit is around. I do know they are now passing the gateway fee to customers. A lot of people are seeing a $50 - $100/m spike or similar. Francisco
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Openstack is just a really big platform to deal with. There's only a couple billing options with at least 1 of them charging $3/month per physical core. There's a WHMCS module I think but you're dealing with the abortion that is modulegardens modules. Francisco
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Bigger issue is that a lot of backbone providers don't have the capacity in places. HE is still 10gbit in a lot of markets with Cogent being similar. In my case I'd be getting bit for 2 of the 3 products discussed in my post. Still, a lot of hosts haven't announced new pricing for cPanel (OVH just recently posted their…
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So pretty pass through. We got our first bill, bloody hell. The positive is every host out there is now auditing looking for unused/badly cancelled licenses. I know one provider that cut literal thousands a month off his bill due to old licenses that weren't properly removed. Francisco
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Currently watching "Formula 1: Drive to Survive". Pretty solid. Francisco
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Whats pricing looking like? Francisco
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Yeah the DA guys have been very receptive to changes. I'd still love to see a whmapi1 type command line interface to make scripting easier. I think getting some sort of differential backups system in place (that or jetapps give more feedback) has to be higher. Francisco
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I mean, the funniest release they ever did was the long awaited support for...OpenVZ 7? Literally all but one thing in the change log was broken/reverted. The one thing that worked? Updating the footer copyright. Francisco
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Solus was supposed to get OnApp federation support but it never went anywhere. It was supposed to be that providers that had the capital would spin up OnApp and then sell spare capacity on the Federation Market Place and then the plebs (read: solus users) would be able to resell it as if it was their own platform. I don't…
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I think that's exactly right. Try to eat off VMware's plate and maybe try to snag some of the people that want to try to compete in the enterprise cloud market. Thing is, I dont know of anyone besides vps.net and the group that got bought out by iomart using it for public offerings. I know of a single provider that was…
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Won't do anything in his case. The ZVOL's will grow but never really shrink. You could try using VIRTIO-SCSI and see if ZFS will handle the unmap/TRIM requests, but you might need to use QCOW2 images instead. Still, it doesn't give him the ability to easily fix things (search for massive log files to clear out if he runs…
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Well, OnApp was $5/m/core and then moved all new users to $10/m/core. Supposedly the new $12/m/core is retroactive as I said. Still, you have to be in the very high end of things to make that work. You can't plan your revenue when the box is full, you have to take into consideration how long it'll take to fill and how long…
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$35 on a 4gb slice and 4tb. Not quite matching the price but I'm not a fan of running a charity. Francisco
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It's just crazy expensive to hire a decent team. You can get teams out of the middle east but more often than not it's a shitshow code base and you don't even want to use it. It's probably a stereotype but I saw it first hand when I did development back in the day as well as helped some people I did management for. There's…
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That's probably about right. Proxmox doesn't have an OpenVZ migration path that is safe. It does convert to LXC's but at least up until recently it was giving users full privileged containers. It's possible it's an easy adjustment in the configuration but even still it doesn't do anything to limit container space usage.…
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1) There's no easy way to handle storage. Users have to use either ZFS (which is fine but doesn't work for user quotas inside of the VM), or LVM (which doesn't easily shrink). There was talks about making XFS work for storage but who knows. 2) You have to use a bridged interface because there's no easy networking system…
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I don't know. When Solus goes this way I see Virtualizor following to some degree. I see no reason for them to piss away possible revenue by sticking to a low per node cost like they are now. Proxmox is OK but from what I've heard it needs a lot of work to be usable and or a lot of hacking about. Francisco