And isn't the Oracle Linux stream free to get updates from?
Yes its completely free. You can yum/dnf your updates just like CentOS. It is CentOS (RHEL). Their business model is hoping you will pay them for support if you need help. They also offer a paid feature that lets you update the kernel without rebooting, if it's important for you to never have to reboot and have down time.
But if you manage linux yourself, then nothing to worry about.
I’m writing this post in a state of shocked panic; I hope you’ll bear with me.
Network Solutions has hosted our tiny website and email since 2002 or 2003. There have been a few hiccups over the years, but nothing as disastrous as this.
All client contact is through email. All of it. Although phone, video conferencing and a tiny website are technically available, they haven’t been used more than a few times over the past 20 years. I don’t think my current client base even knows the website exists. Saying that all client contact is through email is not hyperbole.
A few weeks ago Network Solutions sent a notice that they were going to migrate our email to another server platform. The only service-related statement was that I “may experience intermittent slowness or connectivity issues during this upgrade, which is to be expected.” I received no further notices.
As of Friday, I have not been able to receive or send any email on any platform — their web portal included. I couldn’t even log into the web portal until I spoke with a customer service agent who gave me an alternate address.
Absolutely nothing; test messages sent from a Gmail account do not arrive. I receive no notification or bounce message, just silence.
Neither the autoresponder message nor the forwarding email address are working; nothing but silence.
I don’t even know whether there’s a queue of messages that will eventually arrive in my inbox or if they’ll all get dropped.
I have spoken with their customer service team several times.Each time I was told they were elevating/escalating it and it should be clear within 24 hours. I spoke with them again on Sunday night and was told that 24 hours was just a loose estimate and it could be 36 or even 96 hours. On that last call I was told a supervisor would call me back. I re-contacted them after midnight to hear the recording say they weren’t available after midnight.
Is there any information out there on this? Other people reporting similar problems? Anything?
Everybody was sad to see that CentOS 8 has reached its EOL and CentOS 7.9 will also be gone in 2025. Its main alternatives are AlmaLinux and RockyLinux. I've just tested RockyLinux fully for production and can say with absolute certainty that it's much better, more amusing, and faster than CentOS. It has its own Web Console as well which is quite next level considering this Distro stream.
Though, most of the applications and services are still limited to CentOS, I would recommend everyone to try Rocky Linux instead of CentOS.
