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        <title>Announcements — LowEndSpirit</title>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 23:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>C-Servers Announces Becoming Platform-Independent</title>
        <link>https://www.lowendspirit.com/discussion/10982/c-servers-announces-becoming-platform-independent</link>
        <pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 20:29:43 +0000</pubDate>
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        <dc:creator>cservers</dc:creator>
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        <description><![CDATA[<p>Hello. At C-Servers, we always look for ways to improve our existing offerings and to provide the best possible market pricing for our customers at any point in time.</p>

<p>The recent development on market pricing in several fronts, with relevant increases accross purchasing several components and data-center space, along with some specific improvements we wanted to add to our offer, have led us to do a fundamental change on our most purchased product:</p>

<p><strong>On the next days, C-Servers is departing from VirtFusion and becoming platform-independent.</strong></p>

<p>We'll change our customers to a new platform, C-Servers EagleKey, with several technical advantages and an entirely different, simplified and fully integrated approach to our offering. We're bringing our most-sold product range in-house and adding to it extra possibilities, including Dedicated Servers (soon) and Resellers for our products (also very soon).</p>

<p>Over the past three weeks, over 140.000 lines of code were written and many tests and hardening were conducted, function-wise and security-wise, in order to guarantee our customers the best possible experience. Our chosen basis, <strong>.NET 10 LTS with Blazor</strong>, also allows us to do runtime changes with minimal to zero disruption at any point in time and to correct and react to any issues very quickly, which is an advantage. Our agent on the nodes, <strong>written in Go</strong>, allows our customers to have more performance available by not having to run PHP on every dedicated server.</p>

<p><strong>We're also introducing several brand-new technologies for the benefit of our customers</strong>: this includes Cloud Hypervisor KVM with microVMs (Direct Linux Kernel) and several RAM improvements both from CHV and from us on this new launch. A Debian 13 VM under CHV, with the optimizations, has reduced from around 220MB to just <strong>85MB</strong> without removing essential packages - providing you more room for what you wish to do.</p>

<p>Our NAT management also changes, from iptables to nftables, with improved response and technical conditions for our IPv4 NAT customers and a new button, "Flush NAT", automatically available for customers, in order to address a long-reported rare technical bug with connections on NAT. IPv6 provisioning will also start to be automatic on Zeta.9 Coventry and general dual-NIC servers as well.</p>

<p>The management interface at the WebStore will not change; it's only the Portal, and several underlying specifics, that change.</p>

<p>Most importantly: <strong>OS changes to CHV are opt-in</strong>, meaning that the templates are there should you wish to save on RAM on your system, but by default you'll still stay on QEMU/KVM; and <strong>the migration will incur zero server <em>and</em> zero IPv6 downtime</strong>, with a mere 15-second downtime for NAT IPv4 only due to the automated change from iptables to nftables, when it happens.</p>

<p>Lastly, this change allows us to publicly commit to this very important announcement: <strong>our low prices will be kept low. No increases for 2026 at C-Servers!</strong> We hope these news make you happy.</p>

<p>This is just a small summary on the upcoming improvements. Full details on the many, many technical specifics, reasoning and improvements are available <a rel="nofollow" href="https://web.c-servers.co.uk/en/article/owning-our-tools-and-our-future" title="here">here</a>.</p>

<p><strong>Let's C-Servers independently, shall we?</strong></p>

<p>Have a great weekend!</p>
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        <title>Blesta.store is closing down.</title>
        <link>https://www.lowendspirit.com/discussion/11051/blesta-store-is-closing-down</link>
        <pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 18:16:56 +0000</pubDate>
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        <dc:creator>mikho</dc:creator>
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        <description><![CDATA[<p>Got the following email today; looks like a cleanup is going on.<br />
If you have a license with them, make sure you take action.</p>

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  <p>Dear Blesta.Store Clients,</p>
  
  <p>Blesta.Store has been selling Blesta Software licenses since 2018 and<br />
  is one of the largest distributors of Blesta license keys.</p>
  
  <p>This was started by Michael Dance and later continued operations while<br />
  being operated by Sebastian Graf.</p>
  
  <p>Today’s announcement will shake things up considerably!</p>
  
  <p>Blesta.Store will stop offering Blesta Software licenses going<br />
  forward. But do not worry - there is already an amazing plan in place!</p>
  
  <p>There will be 2 options for all our users going forward.</p>
  
  <p>1) Default Option: All Blesta licenses will be transferred over to<br />
  Blesta.com, the official developers of Blesta. This means our users<br />
  will be able to log in to Blesta.com and get support directly from the<br />
  Blesta team. In a certain sense, this is an upgrade. Blesta.com is<br />
  operated by Phillips Data, Inc., an American company.</p>
  
  <p>2) Opt-Out: For users who do not wish to have their data transferred<br />
  to a US company, we will try working with various Blesta resellers for<br />
  license transfers. We would recommend Blesta.Club, operated by Aleksa,<br />
  a very much loved Blesta community member. Blesta.Club is a registered<br />
  business in the UK. Alternatively, we will also try working with other<br />
  resellers where feasible.</p>
  
  <p>Action-Time/Decision Date: 9th of August 2026.<br />
  Start of License Transfers: 10th of August 2026.</p>
  
  <p>Later this year, after the license transfers are complete, the<br />
  Blesta.Store site will redirect to Blesta.com!</p>
  
  <p>Please open a ticket if you want to opt out or have any other<br />
  questions regarding the process.</p>
  
  <p></p>
  
  <p>For users holding Blesta CMS Pro licenses:</p>
  
  <p>For more than a year now, Blesta CMS Pro has been open-sourced and can<br />
  be found on GitHub under <a href="https://github.com/BlestaStore" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/BlestaStore</a><br />
  Feel free to use, fork, modify, and so on. Please note that Blesta CMS<br />
  Pro licenses will not be shown on Blesta.com or any of the other<br />
  resellers going forward.</p>
  
  <p></p>
  
  <p>Kind regards,<br />
  Sebastian Graf / Blesta.Store</p>
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