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Please extend the Passenger Enterprise $99/year "Startup" license to include "hackers" as well as "startups, students, educational use, and non-profits". I hav
by modernerd 14y ago
Please extend the Passenger Enterprise $99/year "Startup" license to include "hackers" as well as "startups, students, educational use, and non-profits".
I have a handful of pet Ruby projects in the pipeline which won't make money, and I'd like to run them on a VPS using the Passenger Enterprise mass deployment feature with rolling restarts. At $249/year, I'm not too keen. But at $99/year I'd go for it.
- tinco 14y agoIf you don't make money, doesn't that make you a non-profit? If you do make money, then you're either a startup or an established business. I don't know what a "hacker" is in your context? Why does a "hacker" need mass deployment and rolling restarts, while the feature is not worth 249 for him?
- modernerd 14y agoI am not a registered non-profit. I am a developer with a day job who'd like to host my side-projects on an inexpensive VPS using Passenger Enterprise. As things stand, Ruby hackers can either host their pet projects on Heroku or come up with a DIY solution to manage virtual hosts and graceful restarts on a VPS. In my opinion, the convenience of mass deployment and rolling restarts is worth $99 for projects that do not make money, but it becomes a questionable annual expense at $249. From the upvotes on my initial comment, I think that others in my position may feel the same. And it seems like a good way to encourage people who build things for fun to look to Passenger Enterprise for their bigger, paid projects too.