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@clouvider - guess who will deliver us servers for dev purposes?
Always happy to help :-)!
Just ask your existing partners. I am sure if someone with a track record is serious about development then finding some environment with servers will be the least of your problems. ;-)
@Oliver just laughin' with Dominik
we enjoy workin' with both of you guys. Checking the libvirt docs right now to see what can we do with it
Correct
-Multi-region support
-Ability to take snapshots of VMs
Fair warning: libvirt is a nightmare to debug. It works really well... until it doesn't, and then you'll spend hours to days pulling out your hair trying to work out what the cryptic error means.
This is pretty much the #1 reason I'm not using it anywhere.
Sounds like my first marriage.
Seems appropriate on quite a few levels.
@joepie91 it's ok, have been working with debugging such things for last 15 years
Remember when @ditlev said he'd answer questions?
Compliments to @MikeA for reminding me of this.
Francisco
Here's a few questions he answered personally (if anyone is interested):
The 'main' reason of acquiring:
Business Plan:
I'm confused what virtkick is becoming then, an orchestrator?
Francisco
You sure it's even going to become something?
This is why I like you Alex.
Francisco
Uh... not really. That sounds more like "cheap Ruby guys are hard to find".
The way I see it, virtkick should be gutted and thrown where it belongs, the trashbin.
In multiple browsers one can't see but an empty page of that crapware.
The console is the lousiest one I ever worked with
It seems providers can't simply add images, let alone custom images.
Now, for the sake of fairness, I do not know any panel that is good software but virtkick puts a new meaning to the term "crapware".
But OK, we're talking about a business segment where many people seem to be happy to bet their company on some php stuff ...
I just hope you are not ""racist"" towards PHP. Seems like a dumb statement. Please continue.
How different perspectives are! To me, it would rather look dumb if someone needed to be presented the endless list of grave bugs, leaks, errors, and weaknesses in php to understand.
I happen to have some decades experience in software development and I am in the field of secure systems since about 15 years. Having worked on safe languages and developing critical network infrastructure using formal spec and modeling as well as formal verification I know what I'm talking about, thank you.
I actually wanted to create a control panel for a long time. The issue though, is that I don't have the time to create something like this on my own. If there are other people that are willing to do this, I'm ready to set up a group to build something like this.
That may be true, just hoping you're not preaching as a zealot against php. All languages have shortcoming, bugs/problems/issues. They either get fixed or workarounds made and you live with them until they are fixed. Not a single language can be perfect to everyone.
@pcfreak30
Don't worry, I'm not out to fight a war against php. Actually I think it's OK for mom and dad sites or the local bakery.
It just happens to lend itself very well as a negative example. At the same time it lends itself very, very modestly to creating solid and safe software or sites.
So is there any fresh news from the Virtkick on this?
this ^
As usual the amount of information about this in general is underwhelming.
Death Row Acquired by OnApp.
SolusVM New version released:
Changelog: Email address will now look differently.
There's a big difference between "this language has some poorly designed aspects/tradeoffs", and "this language is so fundamentally broken to the core that fixing it would entail essentially creating a new, incompatible language".
This whole idea that every language is equally bad is just complete and utter bullshit. Yes, PHP absolutely fares worse than almost every other language in common use - because none of it was designed, but rather just organically grew to its current state, with very little thought put into the long-term consequences. Many of these issues are inherently unfixable, and PHP has absolutely zero redeeming technical features over all the alternative options.
So yes, PHP is crap. Yes, using PHP will significantly increase the chance that you end up with an insecure piece of software, simply because there are footguns around every corner. Yes, PHP is an inherently poor choice for anything that matters. Yes, it's completely valid to ridicule PHP and suggest that people learn and use something that's not such a giant clusterfuck.
Most popular languages have security issues anyway... It's called patch.