> I should note that I'm a hobbyist/enthusiast type of customer; if you're losing business on price grounds, I can definitely see where a price cut would help.
I think similar principles govern business spending, only $x for them is usually higher. I have a couple of business co-lo customers who have been customers for like half a decade; some of them are still using the hardware they came in on. They could save a lot of money by upgrading hardware (and thus reducing their footprint) or even moving to "the cloud" at this point, because while co-locating modern hardware is cheaper than "The Cloud" - co-locating ancient hardware is not.
The idea is that it works for them, so they aren't going to fuck with it. I'd bet money, though, that if I fucked something up and caused them a serious outage, they'd be gone pretty quick.
>(Also, it doesn't help that the wiki is crufty and out of date, and boot menu, last time I rebooted, was still on CentOS 5.)
I just want to acknowledge those problems. We only have vague plans for the wiki, but we're actively working on upgrading the rescue image and the hypervisor (which, I imagine, is the part of the boot menu you are complaining about.) - these changes will probably not be implemented until our switchover to the new ganeti-based system, but... that should be soonish.
I think similar principles govern business spending, only $x for them is usually higher. I have a couple of business co-lo customers who have been customers for like half a decade; some of them are still using the hardware they came in on. They could save a lot of money by upgrading hardware (and thus reducing their footprint) or even moving to "the cloud" at this point, because while co-locating modern hardware is cheaper than "The Cloud" - co-locating ancient hardware is not.
The idea is that it works for them, so they aren't going to fuck with it. I'd bet money, though, that if I fucked something up and caused them a serious outage, they'd be gone pretty quick.
>(Also, it doesn't help that the wiki is crufty and out of date, and boot menu, last time I rebooted, was still on CentOS 5.)
I just want to acknowledge those problems. We only have vague plans for the wiki, but we're actively working on upgrading the rescue image and the hypervisor (which, I imagine, is the part of the boot menu you are complaining about.) - these changes will probably not be implemented until our switchover to the new ganeti-based system, but... that should be soonish.