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Tell HN: VirtKick has pulled the rug out from under us
You might remember https://www.virtkick.com (discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8527185), which billed itself as an open source, self-hosted Digital Ocean and led a campaign on IndieGoGo: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/virtkick-take-cloud-back#/story.
There was some concern at the time about requiring copyright assignment, and it looks like the concern was well founded. They have switched their model and are now releasing a rather limited subset of the functionality as open source and moving to a paid, SaaS model. So far as I can tell, it's not possible to set it up on your own infra.
- breakingcups 11y agoHuh, that's a bummer. I liked having an open source PaaS platform.
- phantom_oracle 11y agoIt would really shock me if no OS solution exists in 2015 (solution could equal piece of crap, but there has to be one). I don't think it would be too difficult to build the infrastructure yourself. OpenStack is a viable route you can look at for managing "cloud" infrastructure. Concerning the startup, well ... Somebody seems to always get shafted by a startup. If you paid them $2 for their unsucessful indiegogo, download the limited open-source stuff and move on.