If you have not seen it, the new brand of BuyShared/BuyVM is live. The new plans are good, and the servers are blazing fast—at least the new UK location is.
@Lee said:
If you have not seen it, the new brand of BuyShared/BuyVM is live. The new plans are good, and the servers are blazing fast—at least the new UK location is.
For context, @SirFoxy leaked private conversation between him and fran in attempt to cause damage to Fran/BuyVM for personal reasons, it was a personal attack.
And then it backfired,
My brother in crane,
Foxy
Yeah, that's foxy for ya', oh well I was hoping ignoring him he'd not cause drama, but this is LET after all.
Cloudzy Articles
You'll find similar articles trying to paint BuyVM in a bad light too. Cloudzy has rented IP space from us since BuyVM first started basically and they've always handled complaints quickly. They're just hating on him for his nationality. He's a genuinely kind guy that just wants to run his company and be left alone.
I've known the owner of Clouzdy since before BuyVM was a thing, back when we were still doing Ragnarok Onine hosting in Portland.
BuyVM
Yes, he's interested in BuyVM, and He'd be a good owner to it too. He's close to my beliefs in most things, and even a bit more so given where he's grown up. The guys seen some shit.
There was a deal agreed to but as of now the part for the VPS side so He can plan things out logistically. Will he buy it? I'm sure in time. But, anyone wanting to buy us would be keeping everyone onboard for years to at least guide things plan wise, location wise, feature wise, and franning wise.
He has the team to push BuyVM to more locations, features, and offerings. I'm simply way too burnt out to do that on my own. Remember, BuyVM is just 4 of us now that Karen is full time Crane.
Cloudzy is actively RTO'ing a lot of our IP space though, colocates with us in all of our locations, and in exchange he lets us colocate with him in the UK (basically to let us see if it's a viable location for Crane). We intended to colocate in his SG location that he just opened and have that as day 1 launch location. I didn't like datacenter though.
What about Crane
I'm not the full owner of NameCrane. Both Karen & Mike own large shares in the company and also do much of the work. Some BuyVM workers are also helping over there for support.
Minus all the initial launch work (building, racking, coding a lot of WHMCS hooks), they'll handle much of the work for the brand, letting me catch by breath some.
Personal
I've been doing this for over 10+ years and put my whole life on pause to do it. I didn't date anyone, I just worked, got fat from eating too much candy. Thankfully keto helped me drop 40 pounds. I only recently, as of February 24th, got married. Yes, I used a toy lego crane to propose to her, i'll find the photos later :P
What's up with the lore with SirFoxy? I remember him for having written some quite interesting posts / interviews for OGF then next thing I know he turns insane.
@RachelMcAdams said:
What's up with the lore with SirFoxy? I remember him for having written some quite interesting posts / interviews for OGF then next thing I know he turns insane.
He's always been a bit keen to show off how he has the inside scoop on everything (regardless of whether or not he actually does).
But I guess he brings in the clicks for the other place :shrug:
Thanks for the thread We'll be sure to get a corporate user on here and hopefully post some exclusive offers. Mike's a lot more aggressive on sales/offers/etc than I'll ever be.
It's been a soft launch. As @Lee experienced himself we had some node provisioning issues (DNS not linked to the cluster, Jetbackup wasn't ready yet, etc). In the end we had a 'go date' as set by Karen. The site was supposed to be live back in Septemeber but work, medical, hardware shipments, etc, kept getting in the way for all of us.
I'm happy to see things live. Mike expects to have the old legacy/budget resellers back in place in the next day or so with the same resources/prices.
We'll have new budget shared plans (based on DirectAdmin) at the same old pricing but with 3x~5x more resources. We'll go back and apply the same resources to all active shared users. We'll be able to guarantee the price on the DA based plans, but obviously can't do that on the cPanel shared and we expect to have to bump prices at one point or another due to cPanel.
All of the plans are available in the new (London, New York City) and existing locations.
We aren't doing plan migrations though if you want a location swap on an old plan (lots of work for a $2 reseller). So you'll need to order a new plan and migrate yourself
@AaronSS said:
What does Semi-Dedicated Hosting mean?
that you're not limited by "fair usage" I guess... because he will assign you dedicated cores and ram and you can bang it how much you (your clients) want.
@Francisco said: It's been a soft launch. As @Lee experienced himself we had some node provisioning issues (DNS not linked to the cluster, Jetbackup wasn't ready yet, etc). In the end we had a 'go date' as set by Karen. The site was supposed to be live back in Septemeber but work, medical, hardware shipments, etc, kept getting in the way for all of us.
Some teething issues at the start, but the performance is stellar on the UK servers.
@AaronSS said:
What does Semi-Dedicated Hosting mean?
that you're not limited by "fair usage" I guess... because he will assign you dedicated cores and ram and you can bang it how much you (your clients) want.
@AaronSS said:
What does Semi-Dedicated Hosting mean?
that you're not limited by "fair usage" I guess... because he will assign you dedicated cores and ram and you can bang it how much you (your clients) want.
That would just be "dedicated cores" no?
It's basically just very high resource limits. Storage, Cores, RAM, etc. It's still a standard reseller, but we've had lots of requests over the years for bigger plans.
These plans also use 'reseller limits' which means a reseller can allocate CPU/RAM on a per plan/user basis via the LVE section.
If you're not selling resellers and you're just doing shared, then these are very cost competitive once you take license costs into it. You aren't getting 2TB of NVME, 8 cores, 32GB RAM, wicked fast CPU's, and all the trimmings for licensing, for < $120/m anyway.
Litespeed $35/month
DA/cPanel $30/month (though, DA is free at BuyVM!)
Softaculous $1/month (also free at BuyVM!)
Imunify360 $20/month
Cloudlinux $12.50/month
It takes a lot to get a shared/reseller node off the ground these days.
Crates will be great for WordPress folks with a busy site or multiple sites and love their 50 plugins. Many people move to a VPS due to the standard 1 CPU and 2GB RAM limits on most current resellers holding them back.
A $30 4-core, 8GB RAM cPanel reseller is not widely available at the moment, at least not from reputable providers. You can also create your own resource plans.
@Lee said:
Crates will be great for WordPress folks with a busy site or multiple sites and love their 50 plugins. Many people move to a VPS due to the standard 1 CPU and 2GB RAM limits on most current resellers holding them back.
A $30 4-core, 8GB RAM cPanel reseller is not widely available at the moment, at least not from reputable providers. You can also create your own resource plans.
A big source of inspiration for the plans is a number of the dev/design agencies I've worked with that handle hosting for their clients.
Standard resellers don't give them enough resources, so they get stuck paying $20/mo per site to some managed WP provider who gives extremely small amounts of storage/bandwidth or has a cap on monthly visitors.
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Congrats Fran, I got the email announcing Namecrane a couple weeks ago, but didn't know the backstory. I'm looking forward to domain registration there!
We just released our new Migration Center tool that @Francisco has been working on the past couple of weeks. Our goal was to create a simple self-serve cPanel account migration tool. A lot of time gets spent on coordinating transfers with customers to reduce downtime so we're hoping this fixes that.
This works with single cPanel shared accounts or multi-account transfers to resellers/crates.
If you've got a cPanel plan with us and need to migrate some accounts, please give it a go and share feedback and feature requests with us.
We've been testing it but it's still got the beta flag on it because I'm sure someone will find an edge case that breaks it.
DirectAdmin already has a number of user-accessible migration tools, but we're also looking at ways to make that easier/just improve the user interface a bit.
Also looking for other useful tools we can integrate to make a hosting migration easier - thinking about stuff like IMAPsync to easily move/update mail accounts after a DNS switch.
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@SocksAreComfortable said:
Anyone have a "one month later" review of any sort? I know they have a good reputation for the VPS side so I'm tempted to move all my sites over...
Decent so far, for such a short time, I can say "it just works"
I have a blesta portal hosted there with 100% uptime.
@SocksAreComfortable said:
Anyone have a "one month later" review of any sort? I know they have a good reputation for the VPS side so I'm tempted to move all my sites over...
Rock solid, fast - been slowly shifting sites from various places and it's all good.
Now if Fran can stop fiddling with cPanel tools long enough to sort out IPv6, it'll be perfect :-)
@SocksAreComfortable said:
Anyone have a "one month later" review of any sort? I know they have a good reputation for the VPS side so I'm tempted to move all my sites over...
We've upgraded our Migration Center to now support cPanel -> DirectAdmin migrations! This is fully self serve, just provide your remote cPanel user/reseller and it'll pull a backup, convert, and restore.
There is no limit on account count, or size, when doing these migrations.
Next up is probably some sort of IMAP migrations. Getting cPanel -> DirectAdmin was a big one off our plate.
@Francisco said:
We've upgraded our Migration Center to now support cPanel -> DirectAdmin migrations! This is fully self serve, just provide your remote cPanel user/reseller and it'll pull a backup, convert, and restore.
There is no limit on account count, or size, when doing these migrations.
Next up is probably some sort of IMAP migrations. Getting cPanel -> DirectAdmin was a big one off our plate.
Getting the DA converter in place was a huge one off the plate. We've had more than a few users come by wanting to move 50 - 150 accounts at a time to DA. Doing that all by hand is grueling, so getting it automated means I don't have to keep an open tab in Mike & Mateus' local bars for them.
I need to shift some time to the email relays. While we're using mailbaby and its been good, we've had to turn away more than a few users because their mail usage would cost us more than they'll pay in.
Mike's been working with Lagom to get the website content figured out so they can build our new site.
@Francisco said: I need to shift some time to the email relays. While we're using mailbaby and its been good, we've had to turn away more than a few users because their mail usage would cost us more than they'll pay in.
@Francisco said: I need to shift some time to the email relays. While we're using mailbaby and its been good, we've had to turn away more than a few users because their mail usage would cost us more than they'll pay in.
Self hosted? Or switching services?
Hosting our own, with help/insights from Jarland (MXRoute) and having mail.baby as the fallback.
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@treesmokah said:
How about clustered and distributed SQL? It would be "doable".
It wouldn't due to latency.
Do you really want 80ms+ turn around on a query? Galdera isn't designed for WAN usage, period. I've had clients do Galdera over WAN and every few days they would have to restart the whole cluster to get everything in quorum again.
This wouldn't fit into Crane's vision anyway. This would start to cross into BuyVM territory.
@treesmokah said:
How about clustered and distributed SQL? It would be "doable".
It wouldn't due to latency.
Do you really want 80ms+ turn around on a query? Galdera isn't designed for WAN usage, period. I've had clients do Galdera over WAN and every few days they would have to restart the whole cluster to get everything in quorum again.
This wouldn't fit into Crane's vision anyway. This would start to cross into BuyVM territory.
Francisco
Got it.
CDN would be nice though, and its present in other webhost offerings. They usually "outsource" it to some BunnyCDN etc, but since you got a nice network of servers you could selfhost it.
I usually don't use webhosts, I selfhost, but its nice to have a provider with "low entry" I can send people to when they need just webhosting and email.
@treesmokah said:
Got it.
CDN would be nice though, and its present in other webhost offerings. They usually "outsource" it to some BunnyCDN etc, but since you got a nice network of servers you could selfhost it.
I usually don't use webhosts, I selfhost, but its nice to have a provider with "low entry" I can send people to when they need just webhosting and email.
CDN's still on the table as a possibility, but it would be much further down the line in terms of projects. Just comes down to where time is best allocated in the short term.
Main focus at the moment has been improving our mail infrastructure and getting spam filtering relays in place so we can have a bit more control vs using various relay providers, reduce costs, increase limits for legitimate senders, etc.
Next project is getting a decent anycast DNS infrastructure in place that'll be ready for the registrar side of things eventually, but used by shared/reseller customers in the meantime.
We're not going to match the big boys with unlimited spend on infra, dev teams, etc but I think we could provide a good non-CF alternative.
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@treesmokah said:
Got it.
CDN would be nice though, and its present in other webhost offerings. They usually "outsource" it to some BunnyCDN etc, but since you got a nice network of servers you could selfhost it.
I usually don't use webhosts, I selfhost, but its nice to have a provider with "low entry" I can send people to when they need just webhosting and email.
CDN's still on the table as a possibility, but it would be much further down the line in terms of projects. Just comes down to where time is best allocated in the short term.
Main focus at the moment has been improving our mail infrastructure and getting spam filtering relays in place so we can have a bit more control vs using various relay providers, reduce costs, increase limits for legitimate senders, etc.
Next project is getting a decent anycast DNS infrastructure in place that'll be ready for the registrar side of things eventually, but used by shared/reseller customers in the meantime.
We're not going to match the big boys with unlimited spend on infra, dev teams, etc but I think we could provide a good non-CF alternative.
What would be the competitive benefit of your future CDN over Cloudflare?
@treesmokah said:
Got it.
CDN would be nice though, and its present in other webhost offerings. They usually "outsource" it to some BunnyCDN etc, but since you got a nice network of servers you could selfhost it.
I usually don't use webhosts, I selfhost, but its nice to have a provider with "low entry" I can send people to when they need just webhosting and email.
CDN's still on the table as a possibility, but it would be much further down the line in terms of projects. Just comes down to where time is best allocated in the short term.
Main focus at the moment has been improving our mail infrastructure and getting spam filtering relays in place so we can have a bit more control vs using various relay providers, reduce costs, increase limits for legitimate senders, etc.
Next project is getting a decent anycast DNS infrastructure in place that'll be ready for the registrar side of things eventually, but used by shared/reseller customers in the meantime.
We're not going to match the big boys with unlimited spend on infra, dev teams, etc but I think we could provide a good non-CF alternative.
What would be the competitive benefit of your future CDN over Cloudflare?
Not being Cloudflare is probably enough for a large audience.
@treesmokah said:
Got it.
CDN would be nice though, and its present in other webhost offerings. They usually "outsource" it to some BunnyCDN etc, but since you got a nice network of servers you could selfhost it.
I usually don't use webhosts, I selfhost, but its nice to have a provider with "low entry" I can send people to when they need just webhosting and email.
CDN's still on the table as a possibility, but it would be much further down the line in terms of projects. Just comes down to where time is best allocated in the short term.
Main focus at the moment has been improving our mail infrastructure and getting spam filtering relays in place so we can have a bit more control vs using various relay providers, reduce costs, increase limits for legitimate senders, etc.
Next project is getting a decent anycast DNS infrastructure in place that'll be ready for the registrar side of things eventually, but used by shared/reseller customers in the meantime.
We're not going to match the big boys with unlimited spend on infra, dev teams, etc but I think we could provide a good non-CF alternative.
What would be the competitive benefit of your future CDN over Cloudflare?
Not being Cloudflare is probably enough for a large audience.
What's the benefit of not using Cloudflare (for those that see that as a plus)?
@treesmokah said:
Got it.
CDN would be nice though, and its present in other webhost offerings. They usually "outsource" it to some BunnyCDN etc, but since you got a nice network of servers you could selfhost it.
I usually don't use webhosts, I selfhost, but its nice to have a provider with "low entry" I can send people to when they need just webhosting and email.
CDN's still on the table as a possibility, but it would be much further down the line in terms of projects. Just comes down to where time is best allocated in the short term.
Main focus at the moment has been improving our mail infrastructure and getting spam filtering relays in place so we can have a bit more control vs using various relay providers, reduce costs, increase limits for legitimate senders, etc.
Next project is getting a decent anycast DNS infrastructure in place that'll be ready for the registrar side of things eventually, but used by shared/reseller customers in the meantime.
We're not going to match the big boys with unlimited spend on infra, dev teams, etc but I think we could provide a good non-CF alternative.
What would be the competitive benefit of your future CDN over Cloudflare?
Not being Cloudflare is probably enough for a large audience.
What's the benefit of not using Cloudflare (for those that see that as a plus)?
Some folk either dislike Cloudflare as a company (for various policy reasons) or just don't like contributing to the centralisation of the web (look how much of the web goes offline when CF has a bad day).
I'm pretty neutral on it, but if it's as easy and effective I'll happily beta NameCDN when it arrives
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For context, @SirFoxy leaked private conversation between him and fran in attempt to cause damage to Fran/BuyVM for personal reasons, it was a personal attack.
And then it backfired,
From OGF.
Bit of a d1ck move to share info about non-compete terms from private conversations.
What's up with the lore with SirFoxy? I remember him for having written some quite interesting posts / interviews for OGF then next thing I know he turns insane.
He's always been a bit keen to show off how he has the inside scoop on everything (regardless of whether or not he actually does).
But I guess he brings in the clicks for the other place :shrug:
Thanks for the thread
We'll be sure to get a corporate user on here and hopefully post some exclusive offers. Mike's a lot more aggressive on sales/offers/etc than I'll ever be.
It's been a soft launch. As @Lee experienced himself we had some node provisioning issues (DNS not linked to the cluster, Jetbackup wasn't ready yet, etc). In the end we had a 'go date' as set by Karen. The site was supposed to be live back in Septemeber but work, medical, hardware shipments, etc, kept getting in the way for all of us.
I'm happy to see things live. Mike expects to have the old legacy/budget resellers back in place in the next day or so with the same resources/prices.
We'll have new budget shared plans (based on DirectAdmin) at the same old pricing but with 3x~5x more resources. We'll go back and apply the same resources to all active shared users. We'll be able to guarantee the price on the DA based plans, but obviously can't do that on the cPanel shared and we expect to have to bump prices at one point or another due to cPanel.
Anyway, thanks
Francisco
From NameCrane (on OGF):
What does Semi-Dedicated Hosting mean?
that you're not limited by "fair usage" I guess... because he will assign you dedicated cores and ram and you can bang it how much you (your clients) want.
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So do you get your own VPS or is it just controlled with limits?
It's a cPanel or DirectAdmin reseller, not a VPS.
Some teething issues at the start, but the performance is stellar on the UK servers.
Has anyone specified what Mike is Mike-ing?
Michael from DragonWebHost & OnePoundEmail
it's @Harambe
That would just be "dedicated cores" no?
It's basically just very high resource limits. Storage, Cores, RAM, etc. It's still a standard reseller, but we've had lots of requests over the years for bigger plans.
These plans also use 'reseller limits' which means a reseller can allocate CPU/RAM on a per plan/user basis via the LVE section.
If you're not selling resellers and you're just doing shared, then these are very cost competitive once you take license costs into it. You aren't getting 2TB of NVME, 8 cores, 32GB RAM, wicked fast CPU's, and all the trimmings for licensing, for < $120/m anyway.
It takes a lot to get a shared/reseller node off the ground these days.
Francisco
Crates will be great for WordPress folks with a busy site or multiple sites and love their 50 plugins. Many people move to a VPS due to the standard 1 CPU and 2GB RAM limits on most current resellers holding them back.
A $30 4-core, 8GB RAM cPanel reseller is not widely available at the moment, at least not from reputable providers. You can also create your own resource plans.
A big source of inspiration for the plans is a number of the dev/design agencies I've worked with that handle hosting for their clients.
Standard resellers don't give them enough resources, so they get stuck paying $20/mo per site to some managed WP provider who gives extremely small amounts of storage/bandwidth or has a cap on monthly visitors.
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Btw, my 2 cents: If I didn't receive the email announcement I wouldn't have noticed a thing!
(In a good way, as in, everything is still running as smoothly as before.)
Michael from DragonWebHost & OnePoundEmail
We just finished upgrading all legacy Shared 1G, 5G, & 15G cPanel shared plans.
Shared 1G => Shared 5G
Shared 5G => Shared 15G
Shared 20G => Shared 25G
Your price stays the same, there's nothing you need to complete on your end. The resources have already been applied!
IO & IOPS limits have also been removed from all plans/resellers globally.
Francisco
Confirmed. My Shared 1G upgraded to Shared 5G
Thanks @Francisco
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Congrats Fran, I got the email announcing Namecrane a couple weeks ago, but didn't know the backstory. I'm looking forward to domain registration there!
We were busy this past week and built a Redis plugin for both cPanel and Directadmin!
This is enabled for all users/plans by default. Reseller/Crates can of course disable it in their user plans if they want to.
Some users have already started using it and have reported nice speedups on already wicked fast pages.
Enjoy!
Francisco
Migration Center (beta)
We just released our new Migration Center tool that @Francisco has been working on the past couple of weeks. Our goal was to create a simple self-serve cPanel account migration tool. A lot of time gets spent on coordinating transfers with customers to reduce downtime so we're hoping this fixes that.
This works with single cPanel shared accounts or multi-account transfers to resellers/crates.
If you've got a cPanel plan with us and need to migrate some accounts, please give it a go and share feedback and feature requests with us.
We've been testing it but it's still got the beta flag on it because I'm sure someone will find an edge case that breaks it.
DirectAdmin already has a number of user-accessible migration tools, but we're also looking at ways to make that easier/just improve the user interface a bit.
Also looking for other useful tools we can integrate to make a hosting migration easier - thinking about stuff like IMAPsync to easily move/update mail accounts after a DNS switch.
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Anyone have a "one month later" review of any sort? I know they have a good reputation for the VPS side so I'm tempted to move all my sites over...
Decent so far, for such a short time, I can say "it just works"
I have a blesta portal hosted there with 100% uptime.
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Rock solid, fast - been slowly shifting sites from various places and it's all good.
Now if Fran can stop fiddling with cPanel tools long enough to sort out IPv6, it'll be perfect :-)
UK Crate is running very well. Thanks @Francisco
We've upgraded our Migration Center to now support cPanel -> DirectAdmin migrations! This is fully self serve, just provide your remote cPanel user/reseller and it'll pull a backup, convert, and restore.
There is no limit on account count, or size, when doing these migrations.
Next up is probably some sort of IMAP migrations. Getting cPanel -> DirectAdmin was a big one off our plate.
Francisco
Great wank! I mean work.
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@Francisco @NameCrane What are the next exciting changes that will be coming up (and when)?
Getting the DA converter in place was a huge one off the plate. We've had more than a few users come by wanting to move 50 - 150 accounts at a time to DA. Doing that all by hand is grueling, so getting it automated means I don't have to keep an open tab in Mike & Mateus' local bars for them.
I need to shift some time to the email relays. While we're using mailbaby and its been good, we've had to turn away more than a few users because their mail usage would cost us more than they'll pay in.
Mike's been working with Lagom to get the website content figured out so they can build our new site.
Francisco
Maybe some kind of "Replication" ? :-) ... Same website on multiple DC... Don't know if DA support this
Self hosted? Or switching services?
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Hosting our own, with help/insights from Jarland (MXRoute) and having mail.baby as the fallback.
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Any news from ICANN? Can't wait for registar service from Namecrane
I would love me some Anycasted webhosting ngl.
Nada. Trust me that when there's progress, everyone will hear about it.
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Dynamic content would be off the menu on that. It'd basically be CDN'd static content basically.
Francisco
How about clustered and distributed SQL? It would be "doable".
It wouldn't due to latency.
Do you really want 80ms+ turn around on a query? Galdera isn't designed for WAN usage, period. I've had clients do Galdera over WAN and every few days they would have to restart the whole cluster to get everything in quorum again.
This wouldn't fit into Crane's vision anyway. This would start to cross into BuyVM territory.
Francisco
Got it.
CDN would be nice though, and its present in other webhost offerings. They usually "outsource" it to some BunnyCDN etc, but since you got a nice network of servers you could selfhost it.
I usually don't use webhosts, I selfhost, but its nice to have a provider with "low entry" I can send people to when they need just webhosting and email.
CDN's still on the table as a possibility, but it would be much further down the line in terms of projects. Just comes down to where time is best allocated in the short term.
Main focus at the moment has been improving our mail infrastructure and getting spam filtering relays in place so we can have a bit more control vs using various relay providers, reduce costs, increase limits for legitimate senders, etc.
Next project is getting a decent anycast DNS infrastructure in place that'll be ready for the registrar side of things eventually, but used by shared/reseller customers in the meantime.
We're not going to match the big boys with unlimited spend on infra, dev teams, etc but I think we could provide a good non-CF alternative.
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What would be the competitive benefit of your future CDN over Cloudflare?
Not being Cloudflare is probably enough for a large audience.
What's the benefit of not using Cloudflare (for those that see that as a plus)?
Some folk either dislike Cloudflare as a company (for various policy reasons) or just don't like contributing to the centralisation of the web (look how much of the web goes offline when CF has a bad day).
I'm pretty neutral on it, but if it's as easy and effective I'll happily beta NameCDN when it arrives