ControlUp vs. Lakeside Digital Experience Cloud, powered by SysTrack vs. SolusVM

An environment where visibility of general performance metrics isn't currently done or is done with a system that is difficult to use (which was our case). An environment where resource allocation decisions need to be made (e.g. how much RAM and CPU to allocate to VM pools). An environment where a troubleshooting tool is needed (e.g. to answer the question, "Why is this person experiencing poor performance right now?")

We are able to get to the root of the issue much more rapidly this way, and we don't have to interrupt the end user in order to see how their computer is functioning. Systrack is installed on-premises at our company. Check out that hosted infrastructure if you're in the market for it. In a matter of minutes, you may move from one workstation to more than 100k.

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SolusVM is best-suited to automate VPS services where your users can easily order, customize, manage and upgrade their virtual servers easily. It is less appropriate for managing a single server that does not need to virtualize a cluster of virtual servers.

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• The triggers are very flexible and can be configured to alert on things from events in sessions to hardware failures. Script actions are what they sound like. They are scripts that can be created and run on demand or tied to a trigger. One example is that if a hard drive is low on space we have a script to clean up certain things on the drive.
• Script actions are supported by the ControlUp community. Community members can submit scripts that are reviewed by ControlUp and approved. This means more script are added over time.
• ControlUp support and sales support has been great. Our sales engineer is always willing to jump on and help us with configuration issues and standard support is quick to respond and are good at resolving issues.

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• Systrack may also be scaled up thus simply
• Systrack provides a comprehensive picture of each system
• Systrack's customer service is second to none

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• Easily manage VPS with OpenVZ, KVM, and Xen virtualization technologies
• Flexible licensing starting from USD 2.5 per month
• Guarantees highly available, reliable, secure and scalable virtual private servers
• Automates your VPS hosting service on a breeze

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• It seems that there is a gradual transition occurring from one interface (a local program) to another (Web). This creates confusion at times.
• ScoutBees module has a problem with our version of Horizon, so we can't do a login test
• The local program for ControlUp uses a lot of resources
• The training session focus on very large environments, which we aren't. Might be good to offer SMB sessions separately.

• Every new version brings new ideas and capabilities to the table
• Because of the sheer volume of information available, it can be difficult to know where to begin
• With enough time and skill, creating bespoke dashboards with meaningful titles may be effective

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• Less collection of OS templates
• It is a bit expensive compared to similar software Virtualizer
• Plesk has shifted their main focus from SolusVM to SolusIO

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I feel all these products are good and have their strengths but for me it came down to two categories. How easy is it to find issues and cost. It seemed to me that the easiest to use is ControlUp and eG. Price broke down to ControlUp and SysTrack being lower than Goliath and eG.

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Systrack is also used to provide baseline and post-change analytics for the testing of new applications and equipment. This gives me the confidence to install high-quality items that won't cause any serious problems for customers. These are just some of the useful tools Systrack offers to assess the digital experience and take appropriate action.

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SolusVM is more reliable, robust, stable, and offers more flexible licensing. Very active support team and a futuristic user interface that our clients love.

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• its licensing cost is a bit on high

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• It was easy to install Systrack to a group of virtual workstations while doing CPU utilization analysis in a virtual environment
• You still need specialists to discover and fix problems in your environments with Systrack, but it will save you a lot of time

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• SolusVM has helped us to easily automate our VPS management service
• It has decreased our server maintenance cost by many folds
• It has helped us to provide more reliable and scalable VPS services to our customers

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