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I wish there was a paid version without the heavy duty support cost built into it . The pricing scale up is massive. The cost of a single license in the lowest

I wish there was a paid version without the heavy duty support cost built into it . The pricing scale up is massive. The cost of a single license in the lowest paid tier is 2500$. I understand it's because of the support cost - but it makes the adoption very hard. You cannot go from 0$ to 10,000$ overnight. And that's the problem.

susi22 10y ago
That's why I'm pretty excited about what agentzh bring to the table with the commercialization (just a few weeks old) of OpenResty Inc.
- walterbell 10y ago
  Are they going to compete with Nginx premium features? From http://openresty.org http://openresty.org: > OpenResty® is not an Nginx fork. It is just a software bundle. Most of the patches applied to the Nginx core in OpenResty® have already been submitted to the official Nginx team and most of the patches submitted have also been accepted. We are trying hard not to fork Nginx and always to use the latest best Nginx core from the official Nginx team.
  - susi22 10y ago
    No clue. It's not officially announced yet. He's just mentioned it on the mailing list.
- vbtechguy 10y ago
  indeed i am happy to see OpenResty Inc as i use alot of openresty modules i.e. lua etc for my own LEMP stack installer https://centminmod.com/ https://centminmod.com/ :)
sbarre 10y ago
If your business cannot afford (let's say) $10,000/year for Nginx Plus then your business is probably still in the phase where you replace that financial cost with labour and you roll your own similar setup using other tools, and you debug and fix the problems yourselves. And if you're operating at the scale where this doesn't make sense, and you still can't afford $10k/year, then maybe you need VC money? ;-)
- sandGorgon 10y ago
  >your business is probably still in the phase where you replace that financial cost with labour and you roll your own similar setup using other tools, and you debug and fix the problems yourselves That is stretch of a statement - maybe you are not entirely incorrect. But the onus is on both sides. I'm also at that stage where I can migrate to traefik or caddy relatively easily... but I dont mind paying 100$ to nginx for something familiar and an almost negligible incremental cost to them. I am not claiming a magic bullet, but there's a reason why SAAS companies with easy switchability have a gradually increasing payment plan. Instead of heartburn inducing 0-10K USD.
- shawabawa3 10y ago
  > If your business cannot afford (let's say) $10,000/year for Nginx Plus At my previous business we wanted to use nginx plus, so we asked them for a quote saying we had between 10 and 50 servers running nginx per day (autoscaled depending on load) We got back a short email saying it's $2500 per server, so $125000/year. Considering our total hosting costs at this point were around $30-40k, that is absolutely absurd.
  - sbarre 10y ago
    Agreed! Sounds like this was not the solution for you...

susi22 10y ago

That's why I'm pretty excited about what agentzh bring to the table with the commercialization (just a few weeks old) of OpenResty Inc.

walterbell 10y ago
Are they going to compete with Nginx premium features? From http://openresty.org http://openresty.org: > OpenResty® is not an Nginx fork. It is just a software bundle. Most of the patches applied to the Nginx core in OpenResty® have already been submitted to the official Nginx team and most of the patches submitted have also been accepted. We are trying hard not to fork Nginx and always to use the latest best Nginx core from the official Nginx team.
- susi22 10y ago
  No clue. It's not officially announced yet. He's just mentioned it on the mailing list.
vbtechguy 10y ago
indeed i am happy to see OpenResty Inc as i use alot of openresty modules i.e. lua etc for my own LEMP stack installer https://centminmod.com/ https://centminmod.com/ :)

sbarre 10y ago

If your business cannot afford (let's say) $10,000/year for Nginx Plus then your business is probably still in the phase where you replace that financial cost with labour and you roll your own similar setup using other tools, and you debug and fix the problems yourselves. And if you're operating at the scale where this doesn't make sense, and you still can't afford $10k/year, then maybe you need VC money? ;-)

sandGorgon 10y ago
>your business is probably still in the phase where you replace that financial cost with labour and you roll your own similar setup using other tools, and you debug and fix the problems yourselves That is stretch of a statement - maybe you are not entirely incorrect. But the onus is on both sides. I'm also at that stage where I can migrate to traefik or caddy relatively easily... but I dont mind paying 100$ to nginx for something familiar and an almost negligible incremental cost to them. I am not claiming a magic bullet, but there's a reason why SAAS companies with easy switchability have a gradually increasing payment plan. Instead of heartburn inducing 0-10K USD.
shawabawa3 10y ago
> If your business cannot afford (let's say) $10,000/year for Nginx Plus At my previous business we wanted to use nginx plus, so we asked them for a quote saying we had between 10 and 50 servers running nginx per day (autoscaled depending on load) We got back a short email saying it's $2500 per server, so $125000/year. Considering our total hosting costs at this point were around $30-40k, that is absolutely absurd.
- sbarre 10y ago
  Agreed! Sounds like this was not the solution for you...