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True. Nginx got very popular when it was open source, without a company-face behind it. It's a classic example, how some company do it. If Nginx would have been
by frik 10y ago
True. Nginx got very popular when it was open source, without a company-face behind it. It's a classic example, how some company do it. If Nginx would have been Pro-supported from the start Nginx would never got that much traction. It's just sad, as server status is a bare essential feature, that all competitors offer for free, yet with Nginx one would have to pay $2,500/year/server to get it (plus running a binary blob with useless additional features instead open source edition).
I don't get why parent got down-voted. He is absolutely right. What's wrong with the confused downvoters?
- izietto 10y agoNginx Pro enthusiasts / company owners I guess
- scrollaway 10y agonginx pro has been around for longer than nginx has been popular, so no.
- frik 10y agoWrong. First the company only offered professional support. Nginx was completely open source. Look at the website how it looked like in 2012: https://web-beta.archive.org/web/20120603095936/http://nginx.com:80/prod.html https://web-beta.archive.org/web/20120603095936/http://nginx...
- scrollaway 10y agoNGINX Plus has been around since at least 2014 if not longer. Your theory makes no sense, the server has been rising in popularity even faster since. AFAIK the Plus version is just not something people care about but its also never had any impact on the open source one. And as a strong advocate of open source I find it extremely annoying when users find reasons to complain about friendly models for monetization of such software. :/
- thresh 10y agoIt's not like nginx-the-company and nginx-the-opensource-project are different people. It's not that "some company" just overtook the project and now is milking the users.