Paul

As some of you may know, my wife and I had a baby last Tuesday. His name is Silas and he was 9lbs 4oz and 21.5" in length. Here he is, all swaddled up. Blesta is keeping him nice and warm. And another without the pacifier.

I think there was a thread on WHT recently about someone doing something similar, and ordering a bunch of food trucks.

It still needs some pages completed, but the design is totally done. Every time I was planning to make it live, I got sidetracked with other things, doh! I'll make sure it goes up sometime next week, curious what you think of it.

Oh I missed it! Looks like it was taken down.

Do you have your email going through a spam filter like Barracuda or Mailfoundry? That would reduce your spam overall, including ticket spam.

Some games I have recently played: CS:GO, Left for Dead 2, Starcraft 2, Minecraft

That's what it's all about!

I've added the cancel reason suggestion to CORE-590 and tentatively assigned it to version 3.1. The credit for cancelling early should be included in proration.

Yeah, so far I see this as a kinda neat feature, but perhaps not terribly useful. Maybe we should revisit this one later, do a poll or something and gauge feedback.

This has been assigned to CORE-589 and is scheduled for version 3.1 currently. It will likely be a setting for the company and client group.

I like the idea of it, but I have never heard of an actual commercial PHP application distributed in this format.

It's a feature exclusive to webkit browsers I'm assuming. Do you think people would use this on a regular basis?

We had this discussion internally a long time ago, and chose not to use it for many reasons. What all those reasons were, I can't remember.. but it has a requirement of PHP 5.2, which would raise our minimum requirement.

Why must you store, even temporarily the CVV data? If you have to store locally, at least it can be PCI compliant. Does this gateway require the CVV for every transaction? Cody's right.. this would probably be a deal breaker for us if the client was unwilling to listen. There are lots of negotiables with development, but this isn't really one of them and you could be drawn into it if there is a breach. If it's a customer you really need to keep, at a minimum, I would want a signed liability waiver and acknowledgement that it goes against your recommendation. If there is a breach later on, he can't point the finger at you (or sue you).

Very nice work! What do you guys think of the module system in v3 vs v2? Didn't you also build a module for noc-ps for v2?

We are open to that idea.

Blesta will have more features, and more support for dedicated and VPSs as we move forward. So, you're right in drawing a distinction between us and HB. All in due time. I think this thread is more about people's distrust in their business practices, but we certainly feel that people should use what they want to use. If HB is the best thing for your business, by all means, go for it. In my (admittedly biased) opinion, there is additional unnecessary risk with using their software, but I'll leave it at that. Our focus is Blesta, and building the best software we can. The 3.0 release is just the beginning.

It won't happen. It's the same reason everyone has a qwerty keyboard and not something more efficient like dvorak.

I think most people would agree that their software is pretty advanced, and becoming more targeted to enterprise. The problem is that they completely destroyed their reputation. They didn't start out on a good foot either, the first version was a complete rip from WHMCS.. the staff area looked the same, and the database schema was pretty much identical. (I talked to Matt and Aaron from WHMCS directly at HostingCon in Austin about this). They also stole our software license agreement. Talented developers? Yes. Ethical businessmen? No.

I saw a similar story on this recently, I just didn't think the Ћ character was part of the UTF-8 set already.. interesting. Don't think it should be a new letter in the 26 letter alphabet though.

It's like HB changing prices all the time. It drums up debate and results in free marketing.

In v2 we actually had an option to enter the spamassassin binary path, and we would run everything through spamassassin first. I don't think many people used it though. Using re-captcha or areyouhuman here is probably a good idea.

I believe there is an event on service renewal that can trigger the module to calculate and return bandwidth overages for the previous month. It's one of those things we thought about and planned for on some level, but don't have a working example of yet. This could be used for any kind of overage.

This is probably a good idea. And you know what I like about the source being available? You guys can make changes, test them, and share. EDIT: CORE-580

Around 2003 I started writing a billing application for our own internal use, in the middle of the night at home, because nothing really existed. In 2007 we decided to turn it into a product and with Cody's help we released v1. Then we started to get more serious about it and released v2. We had limited success initially, and with v2 it started to gain some traction and we saw the potential. The motivation for us is to showcase our abilities and to build the best software we possibly can. We think we're uniquely qualified to do it. It's not all about money for us.. if we have a choice between making more money and making better software, we will pick better software. Of course, money is nice too and allows us to do more of what we like to do but we put our best foot forward and work with integrity. We do very high end web application development for other companies, and they own the rights to the software we write. Blesta is our own product and where we want to be. I have been involved in the hosting industry since 2000, so hosting billing software is a really good fit.. it's what we know. We have lots and lots of ideas, and if we can get Blesta to where we think it can be you'll see a lot more from us. Complimentary products. We learned a lot with our initial v1 release. Building an application is one thing, building a product is an entirely different beast. It's a lot more work. Honestly, building web applications for other people is in many senses easier.. but it's not as rewarding.