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nwilkens
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About nwilkens
https://www.mnxsolutions.com - 24x7 Cloud Server Management https://mnx.io - Cloud hosting, and managed services https://tritondatacenter.com - Orchestration for your private cloud and Docker containers
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Comment #46708324
The SmartOS release changelog for reference: https://us-central.manta.mnx.io/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/sm...
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Comment #46708221
SmartOS is the core operating system for Triton datacenter -- https://www.tritondatacenter.com Triton is the orchestration of SmartOS compute nodes. Code + issues are active under …
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Comment #44892662
While we do still ship KVM on SmartOS, we've moved development over to bhyve - https://docs.smartos.org/bhyve/ using our package manager pkgsrc [ https://pkgsrc.smartos.org/ ], you…
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Comment #39182390
SmartOS is being actively developed since the aquisition from Joyent[1] in April 2022. We've released a new version every two weeks post acquisition, and are continuing to develop …
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Comment #39048632
We're definitely seeing an uptick in interest for Triton Datacenter[1] from vSphere users looking for alternatives. Aside from Triton, there's a quite a bit of interest in Proxmox …
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Comment #38882600
Over here at https://mnx.io we fit that description, and we do our best to keep our IP space clean.
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Comment #38621923
5,192,296,858,534,827,628,530,496,329,220,096 addresses assigned to an organization — can anyone think of valid reason to assign a /16?
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Comment #37560543
Our team from Triton DataCenter & SmartOS[1] is also working on an immutable Linux distribution[2] based on Debian + ZFS + LXC. Currently this is supported on Triton DataCenter onl…
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Comment #36295785
The choice doesn't have to be solely on-prem OR cloud. We're seeing a hybrid approach often as a first step. More predictable, fixed workloads can move back on-prem for cost-effici…
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Comment #34811726
That’s a great experience with Linode.. We’re certainly expanding our options and with our recent acquisition of Joyent’s Triton DataCenter it’s also 100% open source — maybe one d…
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Comment #34806374
It does look to be a good price/value.. though I wonder if they continue with that under Akamai. We're at the $250/server price point -- and we include a number of items: - Realtim…
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Comment #34805891
I do understand.. and sometimes cheap is what you want. When you want something else -- like customer service, this is where mnx.io shines. I would consider mnx.io to be a boutique…
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Comment #34799799
At MNX, we manage your infrastructure at your existing provider or ours (mnx.io) and provide 24x7 monitoring and response. Our customers usually have 10+ servers, and pricing start…
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Comment #34799740
https://mnx.io and would be happy to have you! We're a small team with great support -- since 2012.
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Comment #33281214
We went down the Openstack path long ago.. but ended up choosing Triton DataCenter. The simplicity in operational support is just amazing. We’ve since acquired the commercial suppo…
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Comment #33264799
Also pretty interesting, Equinix Metal appears to be using this product: https://feedback.equinixmetal.com/changelog/new-kill-bill-bi... https://metal.equinix.com/blog/under-the-ho…
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Comment #33128715
As you've seen, we're open source -- https://github.com/tritondatacenter . There are tons of repos.. Mostly Nodejs and some golang/rust!
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Comment #33126490
I really like this description of how baremetal infrastructure should work, and this is where I think (shameless self promotion) Triton DataCenter[1] plays really well today on-pre…
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Comment #32579610
Triton DataCenter[1] is open source[2], and has commercial revenue in excess of $1M ARR. We were fortunate to acquire this product from Joyent earlier this year[3], and are now wel…
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Comment #32373363
MNX acquired[1] SmartOS (and Triton DataCenter) earlier this year from Samsung. We're continuing development and have continued with a bi-weekly release cycle. [1]: https://www.mnx…
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Comment #31583343
MNX Solutions (SmartOS/Triton DataCenter) | Senior Backend Developer | Monroe, MI or Remote (US Preferred) | Full time | $150k+ | 100% paid benefits MNX has recently acquired Trito…
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Comment #31500238
https://mnx.io -- We recently acquired Joyent Triton DataCenter[0,1,2] and commercial business, and are expanding our datacenter footprint this year. Triton is open source[3], so y…
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Comment #31251037
We are in the process of building this team. This is one of the core hires for the product. With the transition, we brought on 3 existing team members from Joyent, and will be addi…