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I hope people read the fine print on their screen when buying.
People actually read ToS's and legal docs? That's crazy talk!
I think it’s good DA did that - if they want to focus on new features now they really need to make it sustainable, and one off payments are not
rspamd is an excellent substitute. Aggregation and diversity of data can be a problem for smaller outfits and maybe MC has its utility here. Larger firms including mine have used rspamd as a policy milter to curb spam. It's not a black box either.
cgroups. NSS/PAM jailing.
This is tricky as LS' plugin for WP is quite nice. Using Apache's built-in cache and/or a CDN solves the caching side, although busting is a different situation. AFAIK LS is the only kid on the block to do both.
Bacula. It's a simple drop-in. There's even a job profile to backup just the client's metadata and shadow layer.
It's not value-added when the entire industry looks and acts the same. It's mindless cohesion that drives up provider costs, depresses pricing via pure competition, creates vendor-lock, and fragments a product's consistency.
apnscp knows how to work with NAT. Put haproxy in front and use SNI to forward to the appropriate backend if you're tight on IPv4s. Plus you now have a lightweight sink in front of your resellers that can monitor traffic and perform health checks. If you need to move a reseller to another node to ameliorate congestion, it's a simple live migration.
I don't see your use case as "most" nor do the providers banding around apnscp many of whom are equally interested in ditching MailChannels and who have sufficient servers to aggregate learning data. They're banding together over a moment of clarity of what can happen when a vendor they rely upon unexpectedly tightens the rope. Multiply the vendor count out by a factor of 5 and now you have 5 ropes around your neck.
We don't have the same vision and only time will tell who's right. I am not here to follow the leader nor trap providers, myself included, into third-party licensing for a product to work. There's always cPanel if you really want that.
We are at a confluence of incredible emergent technology. Let's learn to make progress with it.
Stopping lifetime licneses (that is pay once, get set with updates for life) was expected after the cPanel's move. Would be pleasantly surprised if "price increase protection" remains for more than 6 months.
DirectAdmin license at ovh is cheap for a VPS?
Some people do want lifetime licenses though. It being gone is expected by those with common sense.
For those without it though..., it may feel like betrayal.
As I just saw in their site, DA will start to offer a "lite edition" without giving more details. It seem they going to offer cheaper licenses for less money (?) or vps licenses like Cpanel used to do - the one named "cloud" now?
IIRC, their lifetime license was never a one-time for updates and support. They offered (and still offer) 1 year support and updates.
IIRC it's 90 days support and unlimited updates
No, it's 365
It actually was 90 days of support (I know, I saw it with my own eyes and it made sense too).
It appears they changed it when they added the $99/year support & updates extention option.
Interesting. If this is accurate, it seem that they stopped the transfer ability for lifetime licenses but they extended their support to a year. Let's see if there will be other price changes, it seem that they will introduce something even cheaper...
Courtesy of the Internet Archive Wayback machine...
https://web.archive.org/web/20190410091021/https://directadmin.com/pricing.php
It was 90 days technical support and lifetime upgrades now it's 1 year technical support and upgrades.
The "protection against price increases" also disappeared from the lifetime license.
Would be foolish to miss out this opportunity. Any control panel vendor who is missing out this chance is a fool and doesn't deserve surviving.
What CPanel has had a firm grasp was the reseller segment. Some hosts are abandoning shared and reseller due to the price increase. Grab those market shares.
Did DirectAdmin change their lifetime licenses before yesterday, since the cPanel announcement (or anytime recently, before their new announcement)?
And for those who already had accounts, has anything changed with the lifetime licenses for now?
The leader is foundering, now is their chance. Capitalize before the storm is over.
It must have happened during the last 72 hours. I was thinking about a lifetime license and "the old one" was still available at that time.
Think if you already had an account, you can still get the old ones, but if you didn't, you might be out of luck
They are just increasing balance sheet for short term and sell at high valuations . I have seen big business doing that
A couple of days ago where I considered buying it was 100% like this:
90 days support
Lifetime Updates&Upgrades
No price increase
Yep, exactly.
Circumstance changed. 3 days ago, hosts wouldn't use DA even if it was offered free.
Now? Different.
They are trying different pricing models like hostbills used to do once upon a time
I have noticed that DA added $99 fee per year for update to their lifetime license as a couple days ago I don’t think it was and lite version of DA is coming soon.
Exactly.
Thank you for your comment. I appreciate your input. I have not yet tested your product, but I will do so soon. If there's something I really value, is developers like you focused on security aspects, and working their asses off to create a quality product, which yours seems to be.
Haha, your are right. We are still testing DA and so far no for us.
I wanted to get a lifetime but now I will not for sure because DirectAdmin does the same thing like cPanel and changed the price in just one day !! changed from free updates to 90$/year updates so ( Good bye ) for all paid panels I'm going to the free alternatives and CyperPanel looks promising and ispconfig for sure.
Well, support (maintenance) costs money. DA issued lifetime license to get people to use their product. Demand was so low that they didn't care.
Now that the demand is there; they need to care.
Sucks, I know but also know this. Free panels won't react fast to zero day vulnerabilities. It requires paid staffs to make that happen.
So anyone came out with their own cPanel rival panel yet only to abandon it after couple of months?