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Actually, Most dealers could host it themselves. Every dealership has a server rack because the way CDK works is the entire dealerships internet needs to pass through there firewall.

So where would I host it? Probably on a simple rack mount server. 3U are already being used for CDK stuff so a nice 2U server could fit in there. Hell throw in another firewall since you got extra space.


Also what I said about there code base was confirmed by techs at CDK. They explained why It could not be ported to Mac. Complete BS because all CDK is in reality is a terminal with a GUI. Hell In realty is I could probably SSH into CDK.


CDK already forces you to rent there printer and forces you to use there shitty firewall which limits the speeds to 10/100. Not 100/1000. Once we switched to PBS we doubled our internet speed. So The idea that they could easily rent out a server to dealers and run CDK locally then have it do back ups overnight would not be insane.


We as a dealership even host our own cloud then use cloud flair as a proxy. So if we as a dealer can do this for less then 2k. How can CDK not do anything to improve for the 8k we paid a month?