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I'm not sure about support and updates without a subscription. That's probably accurate though. My business keeps a subscription. The community forum for nethserver is really good and very supportive.
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Yeah, I had already been using Squarespace's nameservers for our main business website and also a cloud server, but I was using Clear for a media server. All I had to do was get a domain name transfer code from my Clear Center portal. I didn't have to update the nameserver IPs in the portal. The transfer was done within a half hour (if that). It's like they couldn't wait for me to go. So long ClearOS. Nethserver is a nice server package for anyone looking.
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I was just able to transfer our domain. More than 2 decades with these guys, way back in the ClarkConnect days. What a shame. It was ALWAYS such a good server package and the Community was one of the best.
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Yeah, my site is down I believe because Clear Center's down along with their nameservers. That is frustrating.
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If you read through the threads of this forum, you will see that it's a bad idea to use COS as a server, since it's outdated and unsupported. It used to be a great package, but alas, it is no more.
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Where have you been, man? There are no ClearOS updates. This project has been either abandoned or put on the back shelf indefinitely. It's been this way for a long time now.
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Again, have you ever registered your server? ClearOS is affiliated with ClearFoundation, although it's not a supported distro anymore. You can login to your account at here and see your system details and subscription(s). They haven't shut any of that down, even though they're no longer supporting the distro. It's up to you if you want to maintain a subscription that's no longer maintained by the distro. I walked away from it because of the latter. I keep revisiting the forum to keep tabs on it. It was always a great package. Maybe it will be again some day.
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Pretty sure you have to maintain a subscription to access the marketplace and antimalware definition updates, if you're a business. I'm not so sure about the community edition since I haven't used that in a while. I don't think COS is maintaining updates though, so I don't know if it's worth maintaining a subscription. Have you tried registering your system under the Webconfig>System>Settings>System Registration?
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How can you say Nethserver is rubbish, when it doesn't appear as if you've tried it? I run a website as well as a Nextcloud server for my business on an NS box. It has worked good from the get-go. I have extensive experience over the years with COS. I've got nearly a year of experience with Nethserver. While I would rather not have abandoned COS, NS has been a great alternative. Why would I support a project (i.e., COS) whose founders look to have abandoned it (all signs pointing to it anyway)? I was a paid business subscriber and feel put out.
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Switch slowly over to other distros and one Nethserver 8 is a stable release i'll switch over the last packages
I occasionally come back to the forum to see if there's any progress with moving forward with COS.
I am one of the many disappointed. It was a very good product. I have switched over to Nethserver after hearing about it on this forum. It's a real nice alternative to COS, with a good support staff and community forum (just like Clark Connect and COS used to be). Clark Connect is what got me into home and business gateway servers. I recommend Nethserver as an alternative, -
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