Looking For Beta Testers Of Virtkick, A Free And Open Source Alternative To Solusvm

[Nowaker]

Hey, I'm looking for people who'd want to participate in upcoming beta tests of VirtKick cloud panel this month. If you are interested, please sign up at www.virtkick.io.

 

With VirtKick you'll be able to manage your own cloud or, most importantly for you, run a VPS business. VirtKick will have a built-in billing and helpdesk module, but I'm planning to integrate with Blesta too. Here's the demo: demo.virtkick.io

 

Let me know if you'd want to know anything about the project. I will happily answer. :-) Thanks.

[Michael]

Sounds great mate, good luck with it.

[Nowaker]

Thanks Michael!

[astroroxy]

Looks cool, I will keep tabs on this.

[wfitg]

I like it. I signed up for updates. Post more on it. Where is your blog?

[Daniel B]

I saw this over on WHT a few days ago and following the thread there, it is looking very nice.

 

I'm not planning on starting up my VPS operations for another few months, so I wouldn't really be much help in the Beta unless it lasts longer than that though, any idea on the timeline you are looking at for Beta/Launch?

[Nowaker]

Thanks for your interest guys.

 

 

I like it. I signed up for updates. Post more on it. Where is your blog?

 

It will be directly on the www.virtkick.io when I write the first blog post. We were focusing on prototyping and coding in the first place. Blog posts will follow when we have something real to show (namely: the beta).

 

 

I'm not planning on starting up my VPS operations for another few months, so I wouldn't really be much help in the Beta unless it lasts longer than that though, any idea on the timeline you are looking at for Beta/Launch?

 

Hosted beta - the end of September

User-installable beta - mid October

Launch - January

 

Please note that VirtKick will be usable for regular owners of dedicated servers - billing module is optional. Without a billing module it's a nice looking, user focused cloud admin panel (compared to admin focused Proxmox or OpenStack). The beta won't have the billing module anyway - we aim to gather feedback from the user point of view.

 

Thanks.

[Daniel B]

Thanks for your interest guys.

 

 

 

It will be directly on the www.virtkick.io when I write the first blog post. We were focusing on prototyping and coding in the first place. Blog posts will follow when we have something real to show (namely: the beta).

 

 

 

Hosted beta - the end of September

User-installable beta - mid October

Launch - January

 

Please note that VirtKick will be usable for regular owners of dedicated servers - billing module is optional. Without a billing module it's a nice looking, user focused cloud admin panel (compared to admin focused Proxmox or OpenStack). The beta won't have the billing module anyway - we aim to gather feedback from the user point of view.

 

Thanks.

 

buck the trend and make Blesta your first available billing module, then work on WHMCS lol, there's my feedback (not interested in an integrated billing module at all though, so no feedback on that most likely).

[Nowaker]

I will consider it. Or rather, it will be users who will decide what's worked on first. :-)

[Nelsa]

Great news ,I'm already testing Open nebula for KVM node ,will look closely and maybe try it.

[Nowaker]

@nelsa, From all current open source projects I like OpenNebula most. Here's a copy-paste from our internal articles:

 

 

From all the available solutions out there, I like OpenNebula most. Their slogan is "Flexible Enterprise Cloud Made Simple". This is totally true. It's flexible - you decide on how to configure and use things. They also have a nice and clean UI.

 

Compared to OpenNebula, VirtKick's slogan would be "All-in-one cloud with hot features made damn simple". "All-in-one" means you can not only manage the cloud but also support your customers and bill them. "Hot features" means support for Docker, a mobile webapp, and so forth. "Damn simple" means you can get your VM created with 5 clicks in less than 50 seconds, without being overwhelmed with a variety of possible options.

 

Beta tests will begin in three weeks. Please just note it won't be production ready, so you probably want to continue testing OpenNebula. :-)

[dedy]

looking good