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We've been running administrator.de – one of Germany's largest IT communities – for years and kept hitting the same problem: visitors ask the same questions over and over, support doesn't scale, and nobody finds what they're looking for.

So we built this. It's a chat widget that sits on your website and answers visitor questions from your own knowledge base using RAG. You upload text, scan URLs, or add PDFs – the assistant only answers from that. No hallucinations, no generic internet results.

The whole thing integrates with 2 lines of HTML. No SDK, no dependencies. European-only infrastructure – system runs in Frankfurt, models in France, ISO-27001 certified. No tracking, no third-party data sharing. Supports all major EU languages with real-time translation – even if your knowledge base is in a different language.

Every plan includes unlimited conversations. No per-message fees, no per-resolution charges. Pricing is €39–€250/mo depending on knowledge base size. We keep it affordable through a direct partnership with our data center and AI provider.

You can try it live on our product page (chat icon bottom right). Also deployed on https://www.aixit.com – a Frankfurt-based data center provider with 25+ years in the industry. If a company that runs data centers trusts your data handling, that says something.

Happy to answer questions about the RAG architecture, infrastructure, or anything else.

Mit dem OPNsense Release 25.7 "Visionary Viper" wurde die zuvor als "Legacy" bezeichnete IPsec Menüführung in der VPN Konfiguration aus dem OPNsense Setupmenü vollständig entfernt und durch das neue Connection Menü ersetzt. Damit wurde der OPNsense Konfigurationspart und entsprechende Screenshots im Tutorial zur Einrichtung eines IKEv2 VPN Servers für alle Onboard VPN Clients auf der OPNsense Firewall in Teilen obsolet. (Der pfSense Part ist weiterhin aktuell)

Das hier folgende Tutorial beschreibt die erforderlichen Konfigurationsschritte mit dem neuen Connection VPN Menü. Der Part zur Erstellung des Server Zertifikats, des Client IP Adresspools und der User / Passwort Einrichtung bleibt unverändert bestehen, wenn auch mit neuem Look and Feel. Los gehts...

m Moment passieren in der Welt der IT-Foren zwei Dinge gleichzeitig. Einerseits ändert Google sein komplettes Modell von einer Suchmaschine für Webseiten zu einer Frage-und-Antwort-KI und andererseits ändern sie ihren Google-Algorithmus zum Indexieren von Webseiten dramatisch. Beides ist sehr schlecht für uns und das Internet.

Thank you very much for your feedback.

> .. but what I'd love to see is the ability to browse by section with the posts in reverse chronological order.

Just a quick question: When you click on a topic under 'Forums', the latest posts are displayed. Am I correct in understanding that you want the latest posts to appear at the bottom (in reverse chronological order)?

> When I first looked there, it was a jumble of miscellaneous topics.

Well, this is an overview of all new posts in all topics. As we are a general IT forum, there are naturally a lot of topics. In general, the whole page is 'the forum' with different views (with topic images, ticker, stream).

> ..being able to turn off the thumbnail images would be a bonus.

That's what the ticker view is for. It shows the latest posts without thumbnails. As I said, we work with many different views to satisfy all users.

> The domain name "rootdb.com" makes it sound like the site is about databases.

It should be a bit like imdb.com, a database full of IT knowledge - not the database itself (although we do have that as a topic).

But that's what I meant by good feedback. Here in Germany we've had very positive feedback about the organisation. Internationally it seems to be different. Interesting, and thank you very much. I look forward to more feedback.

Frank

Thank you in advance for your reply. We have already tried the subdomain 'en.administrator.de', but Google doesn't like it when English content is hosted under a .de domain. I can also rule out the network, etc. It can't really be SEO as the administrator.de site runs on the same portal software and SEO works well there. We've checked it with tools and, apart from a few minor issues, there's not much to complain about. My concerns are more about the texts or the workflow. Maybe our German way of describing things to users is different from the international way. Maybe we need to do it differently. But how? I'd be grateful for any tips or ideas.

Would you register if you visited our website? If not, why not? We would like to know and it could help us.