[BlueOnyx:15680] Re: BlueOnyx 5207R/5208R Beta release available - 3rd party sw

[Greg Kuhnert]

Hi Michael
On 18 Jul 2014, at 10:03 am, Michael Aronoff <maronoff at gmail.com> wrote:

> Michael wrote:
> 
>> Yeah, there are a few essential PKGs that ought to be done first of all:
>> 
>> - AV-SPAM
>> - APF Firewall with Dfix 2
>> - Backup
>> - PHP
> 
> As someone that runs 7 dedicated servers this is going to be quite an
> expense to upgrade all at once.

Yes... but there is good news. For multiple servers, you get 80% discount of the 2nd, 3rd, 4th copy etc... making our store pricing attractive for those with a large number of servers.


> I remember a while back there was some talk
> of a subscription based model either with you and Greg directly or through a
> company like Virtbiz (who hosts my servers). Is this something that will be
> an option?

Its still part of the future plans. The architecture is built into newlinq, but the changes in the server side are not yet fully built out yet. I've got a long list of stuff thats ahead of the rental plans. For example. 

(a) Content distribution, with newlinq replica's in the US and possibly Japan.
(b) A revised package development and build framework
(c) A revised package "factory" to make regular updates faster (possibly automated builds)

Thats just a few points - with more to come.

Greg.