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Thanks for your reply,<br><br>I agree with where your coming from, I agree package builders need to make a living, everyone does,<br>but where I personally don't agree is say for example solarspeed.net charges £52.36 for PHP 5.3.6 per<br>server, if someone has 100 server's running BO that's £5,236.00, I've tried in a couple occations to email<br>solarspeed and they never seem to respond to my emails, no discount is offered in their shopping cart for<br>multiple purchases.<br><br>Quote: "All PKGs are licensed per server. So for each server you want to run it
on you need to buy a copy.<br>However, we do offer discounts and bulk
deals.", really? not when I went to the shopping cart it isn't. I<br>couldn't even find anything as to say how much discount is available on multiple purchases.<br><br>Regards,<br>Alex.<br><br><div>> Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 16:12:01 -0500<br>> From: cobaltfacts@virtbiz.com<br>> To: blueonyx@mail.blueonyx.it<br>> Subject: [BlueOnyx:07873] Re: 5107R progress with PKG providers<br>> <br>> Hi Alex,<br>> <br>> Alex Jake wrote:<br>> > Hi,<br>> > <br>> > I just want to jump in here, hope that's ok.<br>> > <br>> > Why rebuild packages such as PHP, MySQL and PHPMyAdmin,<br>> > why not just use the packages that come from CentOS themselfs?<br>> > <br>> > Surely their is nothing wrong with their packages?<br>> <br>> No, nothing is "wrong" with their packages. However, there are a couple <br>> of issues with this.<br>> <br>> > Or is it important for some people to have bleeding edge packages?<br>> <br>> Well, that is one issue, but I think "bleeding edge" is hardly accurate <br>> for our purposes. For instance, consider that 5106R (BlueOnyx on Centos <br>> 5), if you want to take PHP directly from CentOS, you will be stuck at <br>> 5.1.6. Keep in mind that the Enterprise Linux model is to stick with a <br>> version and keep it patched, but not add functionality. Anybody that <br>> wants to install a modern version of, well, just about anything, but <br>> especially things like Joomla and WordPress, will note that 5.1.6 will <br>> not cut it.<br>> <br>> Most modern applications are requiring at least PHP 4.2.x and many are <br>> making the jump to 5.3.x.<br>> <br>> Now you may wonder about just compiling in a new version of PHP. Sure, <br>> that can be done. But you must do it carefully so as to separate the <br>> versions of PHP between Apache and AdmSrv. Otherwise you will instantly <br>> break the BlueOnyx GUI.<br>> <br>> You may also note that CentOS has released PHP 5.3 in the repos, which <br>> can be YUM installed. However, if you do this, you will break your <br>> BlueOnyx box.<br>> <br>> So can a "manual" update of PHP be done? Certainly. But of course it <br>> will take time, and you run the risk of breaking the system. On the <br>> other hand, for a few Dollars (or Euros, or...) you can just pick up a <br>> PKG that will "just work" and save yourself time and headache.<br>> <br>> So as you see, it's valuable for vendors to make update PKGs like this <br>> available.<br>> <br>> > Bleeding edge is not always the best, stable is important.<br>> <br>> That's the very foundation upon which Enterprise Linux is built. And I <br>> appreciate that.<br>> <br>> However, sometimes Enterprise Linux (which recall is controlled by the <br>> upstream provider wearing the big red hat) tends to drag its feet while <br>> the rest of the world marches on.<br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> -- <br>> Chris Gebhardt<br>> VIRTBIZ Internet Services<br>> Access, Web Hosting, Colocation, Dedicated<br>> www.virtbiz.com | toll-free (866) 4 VIRTBIZ<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Blueonyx mailing list<br>> Blueonyx@mail.blueonyx.it<br>> http://mail.blueonyx.it/mailman/listinfo/blueonyx<br></div> </div></body>
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