Re: [cobalt-users] RaQ3 Kernel update 4.0.1 & Bus Speed

["Mike Fritsch" <mfritsch@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> seen how fast they'll drop a (not very old) product in favor of a new
> one?
> 
> Web hosting is a competitive business.  You can't stand still on the
> services you offer.  However, the only way to advance with Cobalt is to
> do "forklift upgrades" (replace all hardware) every year or two.  It is
> hard to grow a business when you are constantly having to go back and
> replace perfectly good hardware just because the company that sold it to
> you doesn't stand behind it anymore.
> 
> How hard would it have been for them to add the web and email domain
> alias options from the RaQ4 to the RaQ3, or the "enable FrontPage"
> option from the RaQ2 to the RaQ1?  I don't expect to see PHP on a RaQ1,
> but what about an easy interface to managing SSL?
> 
> Cobalt is selling the RaQs as web hosting "appliances"; instead they
> should market them like cars (with the RaQ3 being the obsolete 2000
> model).  That may be fine for the small to mid-size company that has a
> RaQ or two to host their corporate website, but it just doesn't work for
> an ISP doing larger scale web hosting.
> 
> And since Sun is now pushing this, I am NOT including any SPARCs in my
> shopping list for RaQ replacements.  Screw me once, shame on you.  Screw
> me twice, shame on me.

Why doesn't cobalt create a utility to upgrade our raq3s to raq4s?

Mike

> -- 
> Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
> I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
> 
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