@SocksAreComfortable said:
Anyone have a "one month later" review of any sort? I know they have a good reputation for the VPS side so I'm tempted to move all my sites over...
Rock solid, fast - been slowly shifting sites from various places and it's all good.
Now if Fran can stop fiddling with cPanel tools long enough to sort out IPv6, it'll be perfect :-)
@SocksAreComfortable said:
Anyone have a "one month later" review of any sort? I know they have a good reputation for the VPS side so I'm tempted to move all my sites over...
We've upgraded our Migration Center to now support cPanel -> DirectAdmin migrations! This is fully self serve, just provide your remote cPanel user/reseller and it'll pull a backup, convert, and restore.
There is no limit on account count, or size, when doing these migrations.
Next up is probably some sort of IMAP migrations. Getting cPanel -> DirectAdmin was a big one off our plate.
@Francisco said:
We've upgraded our Migration Center to now support cPanel -> DirectAdmin migrations! This is fully self serve, just provide your remote cPanel user/reseller and it'll pull a backup, convert, and restore.
There is no limit on account count, or size, when doing these migrations.
Next up is probably some sort of IMAP migrations. Getting cPanel -> DirectAdmin was a big one off our plate.
Getting the DA converter in place was a huge one off the plate. We've had more than a few users come by wanting to move 50 - 150 accounts at a time to DA. Doing that all by hand is grueling, so getting it automated means I don't have to keep an open tab in Mike & Mateus' local bars for them.
I need to shift some time to the email relays. While we're using mailbaby and its been good, we've had to turn away more than a few users because their mail usage would cost us more than they'll pay in.
Mike's been working with Lagom to get the website content figured out so they can build our new site.
@Francisco said: I need to shift some time to the email relays. While we're using mailbaby and its been good, we've had to turn away more than a few users because their mail usage would cost us more than they'll pay in.
@Francisco said: I need to shift some time to the email relays. While we're using mailbaby and its been good, we've had to turn away more than a few users because their mail usage would cost us more than they'll pay in.
Self hosted? Or switching services?
Hosting our own, with help/insights from Jarland (MXRoute) and having mail.baby as the fallback.
@treesmokah said:
How about clustered and distributed SQL? It would be "doable".
It wouldn't due to latency.
Do you really want 80ms+ turn around on a query? Galdera isn't designed for WAN usage, period. I've had clients do Galdera over WAN and every few days they would have to restart the whole cluster to get everything in quorum again.
This wouldn't fit into Crane's vision anyway. This would start to cross into BuyVM territory.
@treesmokah said:
How about clustered and distributed SQL? It would be "doable".
It wouldn't due to latency.
Do you really want 80ms+ turn around on a query? Galdera isn't designed for WAN usage, period. I've had clients do Galdera over WAN and every few days they would have to restart the whole cluster to get everything in quorum again.
This wouldn't fit into Crane's vision anyway. This would start to cross into BuyVM territory.
Francisco
Got it.
CDN would be nice though, and its present in other webhost offerings. They usually "outsource" it to some BunnyCDN etc, but since you got a nice network of servers you could selfhost it.
I usually don't use webhosts, I selfhost, but its nice to have a provider with "low entry" I can send people to when they need just webhosting and email.
@treesmokah said:
Got it.
CDN would be nice though, and its present in other webhost offerings. They usually "outsource" it to some BunnyCDN etc, but since you got a nice network of servers you could selfhost it.
I usually don't use webhosts, I selfhost, but its nice to have a provider with "low entry" I can send people to when they need just webhosting and email.
CDN's still on the table as a possibility, but it would be much further down the line in terms of projects. Just comes down to where time is best allocated in the short term.
Main focus at the moment has been improving our mail infrastructure and getting spam filtering relays in place so we can have a bit more control vs using various relay providers, reduce costs, increase limits for legitimate senders, etc.
Next project is getting a decent anycast DNS infrastructure in place that'll be ready for the registrar side of things eventually, but used by shared/reseller customers in the meantime.
We're not going to match the big boys with unlimited spend on infra, dev teams, etc but I think we could provide a good non-CF alternative.
@treesmokah said:
Got it.
CDN would be nice though, and its present in other webhost offerings. They usually "outsource" it to some BunnyCDN etc, but since you got a nice network of servers you could selfhost it.
I usually don't use webhosts, I selfhost, but its nice to have a provider with "low entry" I can send people to when they need just webhosting and email.
CDN's still on the table as a possibility, but it would be much further down the line in terms of projects. Just comes down to where time is best allocated in the short term.
Main focus at the moment has been improving our mail infrastructure and getting spam filtering relays in place so we can have a bit more control vs using various relay providers, reduce costs, increase limits for legitimate senders, etc.
Next project is getting a decent anycast DNS infrastructure in place that'll be ready for the registrar side of things eventually, but used by shared/reseller customers in the meantime.
We're not going to match the big boys with unlimited spend on infra, dev teams, etc but I think we could provide a good non-CF alternative.
What would be the competitive benefit of your future CDN over Cloudflare?
@treesmokah said:
Got it.
CDN would be nice though, and its present in other webhost offerings. They usually "outsource" it to some BunnyCDN etc, but since you got a nice network of servers you could selfhost it.
I usually don't use webhosts, I selfhost, but its nice to have a provider with "low entry" I can send people to when they need just webhosting and email.
CDN's still on the table as a possibility, but it would be much further down the line in terms of projects. Just comes down to where time is best allocated in the short term.
Main focus at the moment has been improving our mail infrastructure and getting spam filtering relays in place so we can have a bit more control vs using various relay providers, reduce costs, increase limits for legitimate senders, etc.
Next project is getting a decent anycast DNS infrastructure in place that'll be ready for the registrar side of things eventually, but used by shared/reseller customers in the meantime.
We're not going to match the big boys with unlimited spend on infra, dev teams, etc but I think we could provide a good non-CF alternative.
What would be the competitive benefit of your future CDN over Cloudflare?
Not being Cloudflare is probably enough for a large audience.
@treesmokah said:
Got it.
CDN would be nice though, and its present in other webhost offerings. They usually "outsource" it to some BunnyCDN etc, but since you got a nice network of servers you could selfhost it.
I usually don't use webhosts, I selfhost, but its nice to have a provider with "low entry" I can send people to when they need just webhosting and email.
CDN's still on the table as a possibility, but it would be much further down the line in terms of projects. Just comes down to where time is best allocated in the short term.
Main focus at the moment has been improving our mail infrastructure and getting spam filtering relays in place so we can have a bit more control vs using various relay providers, reduce costs, increase limits for legitimate senders, etc.
Next project is getting a decent anycast DNS infrastructure in place that'll be ready for the registrar side of things eventually, but used by shared/reseller customers in the meantime.
We're not going to match the big boys with unlimited spend on infra, dev teams, etc but I think we could provide a good non-CF alternative.
What would be the competitive benefit of your future CDN over Cloudflare?
Not being Cloudflare is probably enough for a large audience.
What's the benefit of not using Cloudflare (for those that see that as a plus)?
@treesmokah said:
Got it.
CDN would be nice though, and its present in other webhost offerings. They usually "outsource" it to some BunnyCDN etc, but since you got a nice network of servers you could selfhost it.
I usually don't use webhosts, I selfhost, but its nice to have a provider with "low entry" I can send people to when they need just webhosting and email.
CDN's still on the table as a possibility, but it would be much further down the line in terms of projects. Just comes down to where time is best allocated in the short term.
Main focus at the moment has been improving our mail infrastructure and getting spam filtering relays in place so we can have a bit more control vs using various relay providers, reduce costs, increase limits for legitimate senders, etc.
Next project is getting a decent anycast DNS infrastructure in place that'll be ready for the registrar side of things eventually, but used by shared/reseller customers in the meantime.
We're not going to match the big boys with unlimited spend on infra, dev teams, etc but I think we could provide a good non-CF alternative.
What would be the competitive benefit of your future CDN over Cloudflare?
Not being Cloudflare is probably enough for a large audience.
What's the benefit of not using Cloudflare (for those that see that as a plus)?
Some folk either dislike Cloudflare as a company (for various policy reasons) or just don't like contributing to the centralisation of the web (look how much of the web goes offline when CF has a bad day).
I'm pretty neutral on it, but if it's as easy and effective I'll happily beta NameCDN when it arrives
@treesmokah said:
Got it.
CDN would be nice though, and its present in other webhost offerings. They usually "outsource" it to some BunnyCDN etc, but since you got a nice network of servers you could selfhost it.
I usually don't use webhosts, I selfhost, but its nice to have a provider with "low entry" I can send people to when they need just webhosting and email.
CDN's still on the table as a possibility, but it would be much further down the line in terms of projects. Just comes down to where time is best allocated in the short term.
Main focus at the moment has been improving our mail infrastructure and getting spam filtering relays in place so we can have a bit more control vs using various relay providers, reduce costs, increase limits for legitimate senders, etc.
Next project is getting a decent anycast DNS infrastructure in place that'll be ready for the registrar side of things eventually, but used by shared/reseller customers in the meantime.
We're not going to match the big boys with unlimited spend on infra, dev teams, etc but I think we could provide a good non-CF alternative.
What would be the competitive benefit of your future CDN over Cloudflare?
Not being Cloudflare is probably enough for a large audience.
What's the benefit of not using Cloudflare (for those that see that as a plus)?
@treesmokah said:
Got it.
CDN would be nice though, and its present in other webhost offerings. They usually "outsource" it to some BunnyCDN etc, but since you got a nice network of servers you could selfhost it.
I usually don't use webhosts, I selfhost, but its nice to have a provider with "low entry" I can send people to when they need just webhosting and email.
CDN's still on the table as a possibility, but it would be much further down the line in terms of projects. Just comes down to where time is best allocated in the short term.
Main focus at the moment has been improving our mail infrastructure and getting spam filtering relays in place so we can have a bit more control vs using various relay providers, reduce costs, increase limits for legitimate senders, etc.
Next project is getting a decent anycast DNS infrastructure in place that'll be ready for the registrar side of things eventually, but used by shared/reseller customers in the meantime.
We're not going to match the big boys with unlimited spend on infra, dev teams, etc but I think we could provide a good non-CF alternative.
What would be the competitive benefit of your future CDN over Cloudflare?
Not being Cloudflare is probably enough for a large audience.
What's the benefit of not using Cloudflare (for those that see that as a plus)?
NSA "instrument", mitm that downgrades your security and puts a lot of trust in them, notorious for facilitating illegal activity(before they used to state they are just neutral, but in practice it isn't like that), a single company that holds Web by its balls.
Having followed their actions for close to a decade, its not getting any better.
Don't use it unless you absolutely have to, there is plenty of alternatives for different usecases.
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Rock solid, fast - been slowly shifting sites from various places and it's all good.
Now if Fran can stop fiddling with cPanel tools long enough to sort out IPv6, it'll be perfect :-)
UK Crate is running very well. Thanks @Francisco
We've upgraded our Migration Center to now support cPanel -> DirectAdmin migrations! This is fully self serve, just provide your remote cPanel user/reseller and it'll pull a backup, convert, and restore.
There is no limit on account count, or size, when doing these migrations.
Next up is probably some sort of IMAP migrations. Getting cPanel -> DirectAdmin was a big one off our plate.
Francisco
Great wank! I mean work.
MichaelCee
@Francisco @NameCrane What are the next exciting changes that will be coming up (and when)?
Getting the DA converter in place was a huge one off the plate. We've had more than a few users come by wanting to move 50 - 150 accounts at a time to DA. Doing that all by hand is grueling, so getting it automated means I don't have to keep an open tab in Mike & Mateus' local bars for them.
I need to shift some time to the email relays. While we're using mailbaby and its been good, we've had to turn away more than a few users because their mail usage would cost us more than they'll pay in.
Mike's been working with Lagom to get the website content figured out so they can build our new site.
Francisco
Maybe some kind of "Replication" ? :-) ... Same website on multiple DC... Don't know if DA support this
Self hosted? Or switching services?
Cloudron.io - Lovely self hosted management suite [aff]
HetrixTools - Highly recommended uptime monitor [aff]
Hosting our own, with help/insights from Jarland (MXRoute) and having mail.baby as the fallback.
Any news from ICANN? Can't wait for registar service from Namecrane
I would love me some Anycasted webhosting ngl.
Nada. Trust me that when there's progress, everyone will hear about it.
Dynamic content would be off the menu on that. It'd basically be CDN'd static content basically.
Francisco
How about clustered and distributed SQL? It would be "doable".
It wouldn't due to latency.
Do you really want 80ms+ turn around on a query? Galdera isn't designed for WAN usage, period. I've had clients do Galdera over WAN and every few days they would have to restart the whole cluster to get everything in quorum again.
This wouldn't fit into Crane's vision anyway. This would start to cross into BuyVM territory.
Francisco
Got it.
CDN would be nice though, and its present in other webhost offerings. They usually "outsource" it to some BunnyCDN etc, but since you got a nice network of servers you could selfhost it.
I usually don't use webhosts, I selfhost, but its nice to have a provider with "low entry" I can send people to when they need just webhosting and email.
CDN's still on the table as a possibility, but it would be much further down the line in terms of projects. Just comes down to where time is best allocated in the short term.
Main focus at the moment has been improving our mail infrastructure and getting spam filtering relays in place so we can have a bit more control vs using various relay providers, reduce costs, increase limits for legitimate senders, etc.
Next project is getting a decent anycast DNS infrastructure in place that'll be ready for the registrar side of things eventually, but used by shared/reseller customers in the meantime.
We're not going to match the big boys with unlimited spend on infra, dev teams, etc but I think we could provide a good non-CF alternative.
What would be the competitive benefit of your future CDN over Cloudflare?
Not being Cloudflare is probably enough for a large audience.
What's the benefit of not using Cloudflare (for those that see that as a plus)?
Some folk either dislike Cloudflare as a company (for various policy reasons) or just don't like contributing to the centralisation of the web (look how much of the web goes offline when CF has a bad day).
I'm pretty neutral on it, but if it's as easy and effective I'll happily beta NameCDN when it arrives
I would like to have you check this git repository: https://0xacab.org/dCF/deCloudflare
NSA "instrument", mitm that downgrades your security and puts a lot of trust in them, notorious for facilitating illegal activity(before they used to state they are just neutral, but in practice it isn't like that), a single company that holds Web by its balls.
Having followed their actions for close to a decade, its not getting any better.
Don't use it unless you absolutely have to, there is plenty of alternatives for different usecases.