Entic.net: On The Cloud

SparseZone.com shuts down. This is not the first time we've seen (Solaris) service providers close its doors. Its a bit disappointing.

I wanted to take some time to convey a few things about the direction for Entic.net and our future plans.

We've always run Solaris and will continue to run Solaris. We like the OS and it performs well. You can run anything Linux can, with all the added benefits of Sun's Solaris (Dtrace, ZFS, optimized Sun Studio compiler, and a rock solid network stack). Our CoolStack AMP stack also kicks butt!

We may expand into other OSes but that'll not be our primary objective. We want to concentrate more on redundancy, reliability, and relevance (Rx3). Lot of work to do there (perhaps mimic Cloud behavior). We also want to continue developing our own in-house control panel. They are not as fancy as some other providers, so we got some work to do on that! But, again, our goal has been on the Rx3. Our focus still is providing good service, not fancy control panels. Our servers are meant for people who want to learn or know Unix.

We also want to expand our Your Apps service, we still have our bets on this. It is currently still in Beta but we hope to move it out of Beta soon.

We also would like to expand our FreeLDAP.org (LDAP address book) service. Development on it has slowed down, but we are thinking of redoing that service from scratch - improving on what we've messed up on. Being able to import and access/sync with Yahoo/Gmail might be good to have! Mobile access needs some work too.

We also have some other plans for other Internet related services, but I can't share those with you now. 2008 continues to be a busy year for us. That's all I can share now. I hope this shows that we are real busy and we are no way going to close down! We got bigger plans!

:)