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Clientexec Version 7+
jonesolutions
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I am not seeing any particular topic about Clientexec so I decided to open one.
Now using 7.0.1, we found some bugs here and there, and Matt is fast in fixing them.
I noticed that the customer PIN/Sticky and online users are no longer there, but we decided to code our own, and it looks great.
How is your experience using version 7?
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I paid for a month to try out the new admin UI myself. Much nicer than the old design. I always have thought that CE is one of the better billing/provisioning software. Wish there was a open source license version (perhaps only to companies with some legal agreement to not distribute), if I ever switch off WHMCS I don't think I could switch to another ionCube encoded software.
How does ClientExec compare to Blesta?
We are testing version 7 in a test environment. We haven't yet implemented it on our end user site. Only the administrator graphical interface changes. There are no changes for end users.
I haven't used either in any production environment but the experience I do have with both, and from just using Blesta as a client (for example Virtfusion uses Blesta for billing) both are good for the price and it comes down to personal preference and what your company does really. In the past I didn't like the Blesta admin interface and server/package configuration (kind of like CE in the past) but you just have to take time to familiarize yourself with the whole setup... For people needing a billing system (or general provisioning/billing/etc for hosting) I'd probably go for Blesta solely because of the benefits of using an open source option (their documentation is also great) and the fact they still have owned licenses.
Both are good either way. There's a reason they (and HostBill) are still popular alternatives to WHMCS after such a long time, still developed and maintained.
This, ioncube is just security by obscurity.
It is another barrier to hop if you want to decode software. And IONcube in past few years got really good. It's just PITA to deal with decoding, since hostbill release new versions every week or so.
I saw how hostbill codebase looks decoded... You can't unseen that, unfortunately.
It feels like a downgrade, except for some changes to the admin design.
I have a grandfathered owned license that I'm not using and never got an email about this release (if they even sent one?). It's about time v7 was released.
The same thing I said to Matt, and this is what he said:
I got the notification from Discord
We have identified issues in version 7.0.x that appear to be bugs related to the upgrade from an earlier version and are not related to the PHP exec module. We have also developed several custom server modules, so need to complete tests before we will move to new version of Clientexec .