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Leaving SolusVM

TruvisT

Server Management Specialist
Verified Provider
I've reached the point that their software has pushed me over the edge.

Besides going in-house, what are some pheaseable migration options to replace SolusVM with that are also reliable and secure?
 

PCS-Chris

New Member
Verified Provider
As far as I'm aware there isn't really a drop in replacement yet. Hostguard appears to have fallen off the face of the earth, not seen any updates in months.

I know there are a few things in the works so may have more options later in the year.
 

MartinD

Retired Staff
Verified Provider
Retired Staff
Everyone seems to say this. Frustration seems to be bourne from a lack of speicific functionality though rather than anything major.


If its not doing what you need it to do the only option is in-house as any other software will end up being the same, lacking in specific features.
 

rds100

New Member
Verified Provider
Why now? I mean a few months ago they seemed much worse than today. Now it seems they (SolusLabs) are finally awake and trying to move things in the right direction.
 

AMDbuilder

Active Member
Verified Provider
HostGuard isn't a bad option, with their biggest problems being time related.  I know working with @NickM they are very responsive to feedback, and the amount we have given may be part of the recent silence :D .

I'll refrain from sharing some of the upcoming features, but in short they have some very nice changes planned for the 1.2 final release.  I understand it is currently in pre-release testing (ie: they haven't let me at it), so we should hear more from them soon.
 

Nick_A

Provider of the year (2014)
Should start with what didn't push him over the edge and work from there.
His post implies something recently happened. To my knowledge, SolusVM hasn't screwed up anything major recently, but I'd like to know if that's not the case. They seem to be trying hard to push out highly desired features recently and have been very quick to listen to bug reports (at least in our case).
 

HostGuard

New Member
Verified Provider
HostGuard isn't a bad option, with their biggest problems being time related.  I know working with @NickM they are very responsive to feedback, and the amount we have given may be part of the recent silence :D .

I'll refrain from sharing some of the upcoming features, but in short they have some very nice changes planned for the 1.2 final release.  I understand it is currently in pre-release testing (ie: they haven't let me at it), so we should hear more from them soon.
Correct we are still around.

Basically, we took the feedback from our soft release to take care of the main issues clients were having and automated things even further.

These things take time and when our next release is ready, you'll hear about it.
 

Kihi

New Member
Code your own!

Look into libvirt, it's incredibly convenient and has multiple API's in different languages.
 

AshleyUK

New Member
Verified Provider
In do feel SolusVM is trying to catchup with the months of no/little updates, and they do seem to be working on the main requested features.

However I do feel right now if a Business was to come along with a fully featured alternative, and kept the updates and support rolling I think they could win over some Customers quite easily.
 

Francisco

Company Lube
Verified Provider
You aren't going to find anyone that's going to be a 'drop in' just because Solus encrypts random things that don't make sense. I don't see any reason to encrypt the node keys since the node side is IP locked anyway.

If someone has access to your solus master then they can inject commands to your nodes anyway.

Francisco
 

AshleyUK

New Member
Verified Provider
You aren't going to find anyone that's going to be a 'drop in' just because Solus encrypts random things that don't make sense. I don't see any reason to encrypt the node keys since the node side is IP locked anyway.


If someone has access to your solus master then they can inject commands to your nodes anyway.


Francisco

Sorry didn't mean as a drop in if that was a reply to my post, more a alternative software which has proper support backing and the feature set required from day one. However yes I can imagine not that easy to convert from the "unique" SolusVM environment.
 
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