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So I purchased a Blesta license before v3 was released. Was very excited and was ready to move my entire business over, but then found out that a lot of the features we use were missing that made me change my mind. So I thought I'll try again sometime in the future after Blesta matures a bit more. The recent price increase by a competitor software was a push to reconsider Blesta again. But I am very disappointed at the progress! In recent times I've found our domain business is doing really well and now accounts for almost 40% of all sales. But the Blesta module for eNom has not been touched in years. I remember this being the main reason why we didn't switch. Fast forward a year +, and this is again the deal breaker for us. The eNom module is very limited and lacks very basic domain registration and management features, not enough for a business that has a growing domains division that accounts for 40% of all sales. Being a UK based company that manages a lot of .UK domains it still lacks more specific API field requirement options as well. It has already been raised and feature request submitted by another user over a year ago: http://www.blesta.com/forums/index.php?/topic/1990-enom-couk-registrations/ http://www.blesta.com/forums/index.php?/topic/2626-orguk-domains/ As you can see, no official reply posted and feature request has not been acknowledged. In the meantime, a competitor is really improving their domain / eNom module because they have already identified that domains are becoming big especially with hundreds of new gTDLs already released and more in the pipeline. Furthermore, they are adding NEW features. Features such as "Claim Your .UK" addon, domain name spinner, etc. etc. But Blesta development seems to have other plans and priorities lie elsewhere. This post isn't meant to be a complaint but rather the main reason why we are not using Blesta. It's competitor seems to be one step ahead. I keep on reading on other forums how Blesta is the best software and has ALL the features now but really we shouldn't kid ourself, it still is lacking some basic stuff, especially domain registrar modules. I'll come back again in a years time and see whats changed and if theres any new developments. /end

Transfers, registrations, whois management, nameserver management, and domain locking and EPP codes should now be functions with the below release. If anyone has a Blesta development license, any help with testing would be much appreciated. A test API account can be requested by emailing one of the guys at Namesilo - support (at) namesilo.com. Bugs are probably best added via Github, and I'm subscribed here also, if there are any comments. https://github.com/NETLINK/Blesta-Namesilo/releases/tag/1.0.3-alpha Thanks!

They aren't leaked by our staff. People use tools to reverse ioncube encoded files, and also add malicious backdoors to the code. It's not safe to use nulled software, and it's not fair to the developers. Bottom line is, those that want to steal will steal. Our competitor is feeling rather confident in their pending v6 release by announcing a price increase. I see far more people express disappointment in the pending release than joy. We'll respond to their price increase by continuing to offer Blesta at the same great price we started with. Well written software by skilled developers at a fair price.

Our competitor hasn't released an official feature update since we released version 3.0 a year and a half ago (5.3 was a big bugfix release that didn't follow semantic versioning). Many people are disappointed with their v6 beta. We are about to release 3.5, and have added many features since our initial release. We are pushing forward with needed features, but it takes time. Better support for domains is becoming a big priority as well as a few other items we'll be addressing soon. Thanks for your feedback, and for taking the time to register and post. There are a lot of people who are not happy with our competitor and are waiting for xyz to transfer to Blesta. After each release more and more people switch, so we know we are headed the right direction. Cheers

Hello NETLINK , i have sent you a Pull request to update some function Renew Function . Ability to transfer domain from admin side , more info here http://www.blesta.com/forums/index.php?/topic/3291-how-to-transfer-domain-from-admin-panel/?p=24037 i hope this help .

If I say my opinion over at Web Hosting Talk forums certain biased staff members come flying in at warp speed to defend wh??s. My opinion is: this is what happens when you outsource your coding to third world dev companies in India that underpay their workers and treat them poorly. Employee turnover at those places are extremely high. You never see leaked or nulled Blesta floating around the Internet, I wonder why? The answer is simple, Blesta team is dedicated and have self interest at hand so I do not see any scenario where a Blesta coder would suddenly decide to leak a cracked version of their software. I've always believed that the same people who write the code for wh??s were responsible either wholly or in part for the hacks and cracks of wh??s. Cheap labour based on exploitation and super high profit margin of greediness is not very customer centric at all. This is my opinion.

I do agree on the domain front, however I think there are bigger features that take some precedence. One being a mass mailing feature, which is just down the road and affiliates which again is something coming in the next few versions. You should also remember, Blesta only has a few developers and therefore things take longer than said competitor which has a whole team behind it. Additionally Blesta has proven to be more stable and an all around great product and I regret nothing in choosing it as my billing software of choice. Not to mention there is a pretty extensible API to Blesta so you could look into adding the needed requirements for the domain module yourself.

The awesome thing about having a 'Kubernetes Module' would be that it'd be a single API end-point for Blesta to hook in to, with no other knowledge or orchestration required by Blesta. Kubernetes offers the abstraction. I'll be publishing a paper on Kubernetes (and various other alternatives such as the CoreOS stack) shortly and I'm more than happy to help out where required. Some pointers on the API can be found here, although still in Beta: http://kubernetes.io/third_party/swagger-ui/#!/v1beta3/createPod It's worth noting that Kubernetes only currently supports the likes of Docker and Rocket containers, although there is interest in LXC/LXD runtime support it may take a while to come.