What's up - Week 7
By Ryan on Friday 15 February 2008, 19:35 - Permalink
Our fingers have been going clickity-clickity-click during this end of the Beta phase - so even if you have not seen many changes, things are advancing quite nicely!
Resellers
- A new contact management interface is available through the "Contacts" tab that you will now see when you log into your reseller handle. Feedback is welcome! The interface will be improved even further with more options for the contacts, and the possibility of merging contacts that are doubles.
- The Gandi Mail API XML will be available next week in the the OT and E test environment. We are currently writing the documentation.
Gandi Domain Names
- Tests and modifications of the interfaces for .IT domains is almost over, the ccTLD will be available next week.
Gandi Mail
- A section of the Gandi Mail backend has been updated in order to correct bugs that were encountered with the management of quota.
Gandi Hosting
- The kernel of Gandi Hosting servers was modified Monday morning to correct fot the Linux security flaw that was uncovered this weekend. (Note: you need to reboot your server to implement the correction).
- The Gandi AI agent was updated on your machines in order to disassociate the the disks from the agent itself and to allow for the upcoming addition of new functions.
- The backend is also being improved in order to correct bugs that were noticed by our beta testers and to speed up operations on your servers
- The wishlist for Gandi AI packages is an endless source of pleasure for our developers. We have an impressive list of packages to choose from and we would like to go faster, but we also have much stabilization to do, so that the Gandi machine is running as smoothly as possible. The BSD based systems are not progressing very rapidly, as certain project managers of those projects do not believe in virtualization. We are beginning to see the implementation of OpenSolaris however...we'll give you an update on this again soon.
- Otherwise, to come back to the wishlist, I have a question to ask of of those of you that voted for SVN/CVS...Far from belittling these version tracking systems, we use SVN here at Gandi as a development tool, but I don't quite understand the large number of votes for this as a Gandi Auto-Install package...can you please explain?
Gandi Blog
- We'll tell you here, before it comes out in the international press, but it is not excluded that we will consider the hypothetical possibility of significantly updating the Gandi Blog service in the beginning of next week, but hey...who knows!
Comments
I have been on the beta for a month now and nothing has really changed. There's little new to test and uptime has been somewhat spotty (external monitoring returned 90% uptime the week you sent out the email about a system-wide reboot). So we are in a paid test environment with little progress on things to test. If you want to keep beta-testers, who actually pay to try out this solution, you got to release early, release often and release something.
While you try to get BSD and Solaris imaged (why now and for so long?) and apparently struggle to understand why Subversion was voted for, I wonder how you have interpreted the reception of your AI offering in the hosting market.
Looking at the wishlist and questions in the forums and wiki, it seems evident that most users want and need Gandi AI to be just like shared hosting, or semi-dedicated hosting, in terms of installed "features." And those accounts have eveything under the sun these days, including Subversion.
You'll soon find yourself becoming the Dreamhost of Xen. So be prepared to answer questions about why that 1-share (shared hosting is cheap) Dreamhost clone performs worse than the original.
Hi,
"The BSD based systems are not progressing very rapidly, as certain project managers of those projects do not believe in virtualization."
I am not sure what BSD systems are referred to. FWIW: The NetBSD project is actively working on Xen support. Not only was NetBSD one of the first (if not the first) systems to support Xen out of the box, it is current with latest Xen versions. Xen with a Linux dom0 used to be a problem, because NetBSD did not have PAE support, but PAE-enabled domUs as well as x86_64 domUs and dom0s are now supported in NetBSD-current.
Did you guys change something in the expert DNS editing window? It does not work in Firefox at all, any more. Can't insert new lines, can't copy/paste from other windows... wtf?
About subversion : well, it is quite usefull to be able to queep "versions" of websites/stuffs on the servers !
And to work with different persons on the same project
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