Re: [cobalt-users] Farwell to the Cobalt Community

[Greg Boehnlein <damin@xxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, Dave Reid wrote:

> Howdy folks;
> 
> I know you did not hear from me very often, but I got untold amounts of
> valuable information from your letters and I am very grateful. With
> cobalts no longer getting support, and our client base outgrowing the
> RaQ3 we have been using for the last 3 years or so we decided it was
> time for a change.
> 
> I am sending this last message to say thanks and Farwell to the Cobalt
> community. For those who are curious, we are moving to a new server
> called Easy Admin from www.datapipe.com . It has a browser based
> interface designed by them that is far superior to the Cobalt interfaces
> with far more capabilities and features. Best of all they have a
> migration script that will migrate your cobalt RaQ3 or RaQ4 to the easy
> admin boxes. The Easy Admin servers are available on two platforms, Red
> Hat 9 and FreeBSD 4.8. We decided on Free BSD because Red Hat 9 will no
> longer be supported past April 2004, and I have been told by their tech
> support that FreeBSD is far more stable than any Red Hat based platform
> and much faster and of course it is true Unix, not Linux.

Smells like an advertisement to me.

Keep something in mind. Easy Admin is a managed hosting solution where you 
pay DataPipe to host a server for you, and they charge you monthly for the 
priviledge. It is -NOT- a replacement for a Cobalt unit, that you own, 
control and can break/fix as you please. You will be subject to the 
upstream providers that Datapipe provides.

Now.. if EasyAdmin were a packaged product, like Plesk that you could 
install on your own server, it might be worth looking at. But with over 
1,500 sites on Cobalt Raq units, I don't plan on letting another data 
center host my services! ;)

And as for Linux not being "Unix", perhaps you should tell SCO that! :)

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