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No, Unfortunately, we sell shared hosting and Server Management ( min plan with $30 ) as of now. An addition is using Ansible automation for installation of software or plugins inside server, It's an offer
@easycomehost said:
get_urlas rootDo I need to continue?
This service sounds to me like someone is picking up things from the trash bin and selling it as used without verification.
Wouldn't be surprised if it's just a compilation of publicly available untested Ansible Scripts from beginner tutorials. Nothing you described here sounds like anything useful to anybody. You can find many other service providers here on LET doing way more competent and useful server administration services.
The mentioned things are not necessary items, We can define it as per our needs, even the name also, We can define it as per our wish. I don't think we need to explicitly add "become_user" in playbook instead of tasks as normally get the CSF URL download is done by root and no harm on this.
These are not publically available ansible scripts. these are developed by ourselves with a lot of customization. About system administration, no one complained about us after using our support till now. I don't know how you can say about our administration without testing our support or help. You just blindly said it.
As I wrote:
I didn't describe the playbook here due to security concerns, But I have pasted a snippet here from my playbook.
Here it is again
What's the security concern?
How many clients using your server admin services?
What if a customer is not satisfied with what you claim to offer?
What benefits will a customer have in terms of automation?
How will customer get updates?
Made my day 😂
Mistakes may happen, But give them a chance to clear them. Nothing found here for a laugh
Ans: If we pasted the playbook here, anyone can copy-paste the playbook and run it themselves, then what's the need of providing that service by us. We can simply upload it to a public repository and share it with anyone. I am selling it as a service.
Ans: We have lot of clients using our Admin services and all are happy with our services.
Ans: They will get refund instantly if they are not satisfied with the services.
Ans: We can give the specific tasks to them if they need it future and give full support lifelong.
Ans: They can visit our website directly to know about updates or we will post them in forums.
Kind Sir, only Silver Plan falls within LE limits. And it would help if the prices are listed in the OP. Unless you got a waiver for that also.
And wishing you well given the flood situation in Kerala.
It deadset takes about 5 minutes to write an ansible script to install CSF and copy over a template conf file. How are you charging for something so simple?
Yes, Thanks for the advice. We will do it in our future posts. Appreciated
It's not about just CSF, We are doing it for all the server-wide software and configurations. Moreover we will give full support round the clock to customers. For these services it should be a paid one.
What hardening do provide with your management? Also, what else is included apart from hardening?
Here is a solution:
Frankly if you provide vague information its gonna hurt you.
Atleast on this forum you are treading on thin platform
We are providing SSH level hardening as this is one of the most precaution we have to take care while running a Linux server.
Apart from that do Apache security hardening, MySQL hardening, Stop unwanted services etc
About cPanel/WHM server, install CSF and do all the recommended security hardening by CSF.
We are not selling VPS plans and services.
I am not providing any vague information. If you provide me a server, I can run my playbook over there, It's tested already with our testing environment and confirm it's free from issues and bugs.
Can you make custom playbooks?
I want to deploy NDNts-video-server to several servers, encode a video, and upload the video to all these servers.
Can you give a quote for 5 servers?
Do you have the official document which guides NDNts-video-server encoding?
Yes, deployment instructions and encoding commands are in README.md file.
encode.shis the encoding script.You didn't got the message. It's not about bugs or problems with your script. We don't see any value in your scripts, not technical difficulties. The only thing reasonable for the price is the around the clock support availability but definitely not your scripts. For some reason you insist on that your scripts provide value to the customer and we try to explain you why this isn't the case in our view.
Right. You may want to answer specifically if you have any clients actually using your system admin service... so far you seem to have clients in your head only.
Plus nulled whmcs... jeez, you got steel balls
Please define "Initial Hardening"....
If they tested it in their own environment, that doesn't mean it will work on different environments and on servers that are already operational that might have conflicts with what the playbooks are doing. It's this simple fact that they don't understand this that worries me.
Even though they offer 24/7 support I wouldn't trust them to be able to help with any issues that aren't simple. If they have no idea how simple their Ansible scripts are or how using a nulled version of WHMCS is wrong, what hope do they have?
Looked at the repo and suddenly found myself at NDN Wiki page. Got lost.
Back to the topic: "upload payload to X servers, execute and get results back" is generally easy (friendly tip:
copy:is not your friend despite of its name). Feel free to reach out. I accept payments in 101 about NDN and why humanity should be interested in it. Also, have a few questions about QUIC if you are feeling particularly inclined to share some knowledge.This is part of providing value to the customer imo. Setting something up from scratch isn't any value but maintaining the integrity of the customers systems is. How he acts here on this forum, I'm questioning his ability to do this properly and wouldn't ever let him touch my system because I suppose him to fail hard.
You're right, I wouldn't trust them about this either but having staff available around the clock (no matter if incompetent) this does explain to me at least why he's demanding money for it.