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Why to made us more dependable on one vendor as now we are 100 dependable on CloudLinux which latest moves (wordpress as a service question survey on their servers,) I strongly oppose
Centos 7,8 and their derivatives even with 4.18 kernel do not recognize fully AMD family 17 (Ryzen 3800x which everybody here likes - you can see that notice on boot if you watch the IPMI - maybe 3600 too I do not have AX41 but i think the model family is the same ) so If someone uses those OS with this CPU or newer ones they do not get its full potential... I maybe got to test OracleLinux which is RH derivative but with 5.4 kernel UEK - Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel ... but Ubuntu is way ahead why to go to the hands of a corporation like oracle that has controversial moves in the past (MySQL , Open Solaris) to be able to access innovations ....
When native ZFS support came to Ubuntu as default (next month with 20.10 as in 20.04 it is marked as experimental) I'll plan to introduce hosting node with that passing ZFS benefits to the end customers - and proudly brag about that (with bubblewarp and cgroup limits ....)
(Support for Debian is support for Ubuntu and any other apt distro... )
Why DirectAdmin to loose it's role of a panel that brings latest innovations to the market and goes the route of cPanel which for five years cannot bring correct network manager support and that is the reason it still do not work on centos 8 and cloud linux 8 as version 8 has network manager only.... (Meme will be - cPanel, let support only RH derivatives, 2015 next great idea let's support service network only it is easy, even network manager is default in the new OS, 5 years later Surprised Pikachu - next version has only network manager)
P.S if updates are so hard to you to 50 servers you can use something as PSSH to execute it and only react on errors if there are such
P.S.S I had a VM which auto updates (yum cron + DA cron daily with no issues since August 2019 -maybe I'm lucky but IMHO it is stable enough to set it that way)
Unfortunately FreeBSD licenses make up less than 0.25% (1/4 of 1%) of all licenses.. Not fun to be a market leader when it costs more to develop than sales bring in
This is kind of my point.
But... it's certainly DA's right to continue to support all that they support. I'm not arguing that.
But say 90% of your license are CentOS/RHEL/CloudLinux and a major issue comes up that takes 4 weeks to resolve in FreeBSD... why does 90% of your licensees have to wait for that fix just to satisfy 0.25% of your licensees? Why is development time spent on 0.25% of your licensees when the majority of your license are something else?
Again, I'm not saying DirectAdmin has to drop support for all of these OS's. I'm just trying to offer up perspective on why that might be a negative in term of DirectAdmin's development.
Sorry to hear that , Just and Idea: if you can cover that from you marketing budget for some time until Ubuntu ZFS get enough traction and then you can claim to be the market leader in ZFS Hosting - A Panel used by host that care for your data integrity then left the leadership in FreeBSD Hosting to Virtualmin... Even though that is more technical and will be hard to pitch the customer that are not technical savvy it still will be a leadership ....
Everything that is compiled can get version up or down if you have issues, smtalk pointed that as an example for php upgrade (you then argued for remi is even faster than php.net) but here you can do upgrade/ downgrade with literally everything exim, dovecot apache etc ... with compiling you do not wait for the panel as in cPanel where they are vendor of the a lot of the packages to do something ....
P.S,I really recommend PSSH (Parallel SSH) if you got to update a lot of servers and do not trust (i do not - saltstack issue just reassure me not to trust) other automation softwares that run on the server
I do think DA is wasting time with other OSes. It is also slowing their development. It is a good panel, but it still has a long way to go ...with limited resources at hand.
Instead of trying to be a jack of all traits, it might be better to master just a single OS.