Paul

I can definitely see how small hosting companies might not benefit from hostingcon, it definitely has more appeal to hosting industry vendors. Though, there is probably benefit in establishing better relationships with those companies you work with.. control panels, registrars, merchant providers, etc. When you have suggestions, they are much more likely to act when you discuss in person with a higher up. All of the sessions had someone handing out and collecting surveys for the session. One of the questions was whether or not the speaker had a sales pitch -- they have said that speakers with a sales pitch will not be invited back. So, I think that's something that was definitely a problem, and that they are working on. In all the sessions we went to, there was maybe one or two indirect sales pitches, so I think it's much improved. I can say that you're probably right.. there does seem to be a bit of a clique, but I don't think it's overt. I wouldn't say everyone knows who we are, but we did fit in pretty well and didn't have much trouble talking with people. It's clear that a lot of people know each other very well, but I think it's because the industry is so small.

As you guys know, Cody and I went to Austin this week for HostingCon. We had a really good time, and met with a ton of people. It's definitely interesting to see what everyone is up to, meet some people again, and others for the first time in person. Here are a few pics from our time there.. The convention center - Main hall, before opening ceremony - cPanel/SoftLayer party (part of it, there was another room and a balcony up top where most people were) - Around town, the capitol building - Cody posing by the competitions booth - Competition Jenga, it kept falling apart, over and over and over (A sign?) - Some of you may be wondering, yes we did meet both Aaron and Matt and others from their team. We didn't think to ask for a photo at the time, but we had a really good, friendly chat. Even though we are competitors, it was really nice to meet them. Ultimately, we strengthened some relationships, formed some new ones, and got a lot of great ideas that should be coming down the pipeline in the future. Wherever we went, we found people who were excited about Blesta and wished us the best. It's really great to know that so many people are behind us, and it's hard not to get at least a little charged up about the future. So, was HostingCon Austin a success? Absolutely! Looking forward to the future.

Hey, the more the better that's what this beta is all about! Thanks for the help!

That looks really good, love the icons!

Very nice, I love the simplicity. Nice and clean.

Hey thanks! Glad to hear you were able to get familiar with the gateway system so quickly too.

There definitely hasn't been enough love from hosting billing vendors in the past decade. Hopefully we can change that and shake things up a bit.

Good observation. I suspect this is the intended behavior for now, but we may want to take a look at this once the ability for contacts to login has been implemented.

Contact logins are planned, so you can expect that in the next few official releases.

Nothing to see yet, additional order templates will likely be coming post release, starting with 3.1.

I saw this this morning, pretty funny. They are definitely firing some shots over the bow @ xbox

Yes, the API is completely new and supports all public model methods, including those of plugins. Please see http://docs.blesta.com/display/dev/API and also http://source-docs.blesta.com/ for the source docs.

Are you saying you can play PS3 games on the PS4? Because I heard the opposite, but maybe it was just a rumor.

I love how they didn't email me about that.

Yes, it's mostly done just have a few remaining pages to complete. It will be launching at or shortly prior to final release.

It was probably 2 months ago.. I'm a really bad judge of time, soon after they first started offering the service. I tried to do a password reset, but it doesn't even recognize my email address. They were really breached?

I'm not sold on it yet, but it's better than advertising ipboard!

Well, I haven't seen much but I just got filled in on the basics.. and it looks like Xbox one is going to have an uphill battle. Better used games policy, better price.

Any idea when these will start to hit the marketplace?

Next week it will be different, and different the following week, and one of these weeks they will disappear.

I signed up for the alerts on name.com, and then I tried to log in last week and it didn't recognize my account at all -- as if they just deleted it.

CentovaCast is in jira as CORE-511. I don't have an ETA for you, but probably around the 3.1 - 3.2 time frame.

Looking good!

We will definitely be building a KB, the problem is that we have a really big list of things to do and it's not ranking up there very high at the moment. It will most likely be released as an update to the "Support Manager" plugin, which is the current ticket system. This will allow us to do some cool things like recommend certain KB entries when a user is about to open a ticket by scanning their question against KB tags.

I don't think my wife would be too happy about that