Glad you like it!

Yeah it definitely had issues in earlier versions, but I think it’s slowly getting there over time. Development just takes some time.

Feel free to share how it works for you now

Yeah I limited the community version to free operating systems. Because if you are using something like RHEL or Windows Server, you are probably using it for some commercial purpose. Not always but most of the time.

Virtualized windows? As in Hyper-V? Or what are you referring to

In terms of xen support, I plan to implement an XCP-ng integration next

Yes, that is the idea. Over time I hope to provide integrations for most other hypervisors that are not supported yet and various other tools. But it’s getting there, a big chunk is already implemented.

As I mentioned in reply to another comment of yours, the main difference in my opinion here is that I am posting this as an individual one-man company compared to something like Oracle. And the Oracle free tier still requires you to sign-up and provide your data. This free version does not have such a commitment.

A lot of projects are sharing status updates and development news and various platforms, some on lemmy as well. On average, I post status updates every 1-2 months when there is something to share. And yes this is self-serving, I am advertising my project after all.

I think blocking me would be a bit overkill? You could also just downvote the posts you don’t want to see and move on, you don’t have to read my posts if you don’t like them. That is up to everyone themselves. People who are interested in these posts can do the opposite.

In this case I am trying to market XPipe as a one-man company. Yes, that is technically still a company, but it’s a little bit more personal. Because here you are not talking with the marketing department of XPipe but with the developer of it.

Yeah the pricing model requires the homelab plan for larger Proxmox cluster setups with multiple nodes. However, there are no limits to what you can do with that one Proxmox node. You can fully use every feature with it there is no limit on the amount of VMs you can manage in the community version on that node. Just when your homelab setup is larger and has multiple nodes, it requires the homelab plan. And at the end of the day, I think you can form an informed opinion on whether upgrading to the homelab plan would make sense to you after using the one node for some time. If you don’t think the saved time and effort with XPipe is worth the 5$/month for you, that’s fine. Everyone can determine that for themselves.

Wow, I missed quite a discussion up here when I was away.

I would argue this is part of this community, a showcase and status updates of projects that can be useful for the selfhosted community. I understand that there is a focus for completely free projects in here, but some tools showcased here also include a paid plan. In this case I’m trying to make a living out of this, so there is a payment model in place. I limit my posts to only major updates, so the post frequency is dependent on the development speed.

There is a free community plan available that covers many use cases, there is no need to pay for XPipe unless you want to fully commit to it and use all of its features.

This refers to having an enterprise license for Windows. If you have such a Windows product key enabled, the OS name will show as Windows Enterprise or as Windows Datacenter.

The goal is to just separate the users into personal and commercial customers, because you would have to spend quite a bit of money for these Windows licenses and keeping such systems running.

But in practice, you can just attempt to connect to any system from XPipe and it will tell you whether if you need a license for that.