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@mikeyur There are several other LET members that share my opinion. I'm actually late to the party. It's tacky posting in threads about other providers and blatantly promoting Delimiter. Does WSI, Volumedrive, or Dacentec do that to Delimiter? Heck no! Delimiter is the only company I've seen do that to others here. However, I do applaud Mark in this particular thread for stating facts and educating consumers.
I am thankful for @MarkTurner 's posts here. I would have merrily purchased this and then find out the hard way that it would suck for my use case. He saved me a lot of trouble. And no, I am not a Delimiter customer or have any other dealings with him.
I think it's more smart than tacky. The world is not a big fuzzy cotton ball emitting rainbow-shitting unicorns screaming "BE FAIR!".
And this is the exact fucking problem that I have with this world.
I'm not sure that there's a resolution to this. I'm not here to please everyone, each user is free to have their own opinions.
Just going to quickly restate what I posted previously:
Way back in the mists of time, providers wouldn't criticise each other or pick holes in each others offerings, and were generally cordial to one another (in public at least).
That's not the way LET is anymore, and that's that really. I'm sure we all have an opinion on whether that's a good thing or not.
A great man once told me: We're all cunts.
Customer access to the DCMI interface is coming. That's how we currently handle reboots and reload functions. There are some security issues to iron out and then they will be accessible through the service panel int he billing system.
If you know what you're doing you can use the recovery option to change your partitions or even load custom OSs. We don't support it but there are posts on this forum of people loading Windows 7 on some of our boxes using that method.
All our preconfig system use PXE to boot and load. We also have custom provisioning systems, tests and wipes. Basically once the hardware is built and racked the system automatically detects that a new server has been racked, determines what kind of system it is, tests the hardware and takes over from there. No one touches them after that unless there's a hardware issue.
The drives are accessible without removing the chassis or even powering down the blade. They are hot swapable.
The pins hold the mezzanine cards in pretty snug. There's actually a metal bracket to secure a card in the PCI slot.
We've actually solved all these issues.
Fortunately I have some very smart people working for me.
That's what access lists are for.
We will have several specs on these including specs with multiple drives. Yes, we even solved that problem.
Actually it was the second. We have the first ones, which were all 55xx based. We have a LOT of those running. No complaints in the last 3 years we've been using them.
The auto provisioning system isn't set up yet to interact with the switches these are on as they're not our normal vendor. You can open a ticket requesting additional IPs.
The 2012 image will be done next week. I don't have an ETA on ESXi. Right now the rollout priority is CentOS 6.x, Debian, Windows 2012 and 2008 Chinese and then ESXi.
@AaronW
As a simple enthousiast (i.e. not a sysadmin), from this thread I am left with these questions:
@AaronW Please add Ubuntu 14.04, some of us prefer LTS.
Seriously?? Fire your network administrator if that is what they are telling you.
What @deadbeef said, which seems to cover the negative aspects of this on face value, good offer.
Not at this time. That functionality is coming soon. Our technicians do have the ability to see your screen on boot so they can help you if you need it.
While I would never say your box is unhackable, we have taken steps to secure the back end interfaces. That issue is one of the first we addressed.
Can you define those steps for clarity, because access control lists are NOT going to help in this matter.
Sorry wrong account - I have to use this one to ask questions
Q: Can you define those steps for clarity, because access control lists are NOT going to help in this matter.
The joke was funny when started...
More and more I am getting an idea that WholeSale Internet don't really have a clue what they are doing with anything.
I'm sorry to hear that. You seem to be such a proponent of us in other threads.
You should check out my signature yo, you already have my address
To be serious though, I'm enjoying my 10USD 500GB atom, I probably will (still) be grabbing one of the 50USD dual E5s.
The sarcasm packed into this comment
https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/comment/1606859/#Comment_1606859
Maybe Mark should pickup one of these and do some testing to see if there really are problems.