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Per the pricing plan, all licenses are forever licenses, but the lowest two tiers only offer 1 year of updates.

After that you can choose to renew, or continue with your current version.

If you do not like subscriptions, there still a lifetime plan, but at a higher pricepoint.

All existing plans are grandfathered in.

Full announcement form Lime: https://unraid.net/blog/pricing-change

Note: I have mixed emotions about this, but I'm seeing a lot of rage bait, and if we're going to rage we might as well have our facts straight.

If you haven't subbed already and are interested, check out the unraid community at [email protected]. We are already discussing it over there too.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

Former sublime text user here. Eating popcorn and chuckling at "lifetime license"

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Proxmox, OpenMediaVault VM, Docker, Portainer, SnapRaid.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I have similar setup but without PROXMOX. I tried it but never saw the benefit. Using ZFS for bitrot protection.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I don't use unraid as it is proprietary software

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The water is not that hot!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Some of you guys are nahive.

The true and best open source stuff is not developed for profit. Once it is, its only a matter of time because, guess what, software development is never really profitable no matter how much you piss off your user base.

Don't get me wrong: nothing bad in seeking profit, I do it myself too, I don't live of thin air...

But true open source projects are not developed by seeking sustainability and profit out of it. I steer away from any such project because it's doomed sooner or later and history is full of those projects.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Software development is never profitable?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For it to be, you need a solid paying user base. Which is not the case at hand.

Very often also at.enterprise level the big money is in training, support and courses rather than in the software licenses per se.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Well duh, most software these days doesn't have a direct license cost; you don't pay for the Netflix app on your TV, you pay for Netflix the service.

(Okay, Netflix might not be the best example for sustainable software-based profit but you get the idea.)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Naive/naïve?

I searched for "nahive" just in case it was a word I hadn't heard of but it doesn't seem to be.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did you know the world naïve is written backwards on your water bottle?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thats a good one! But I am not French.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters More Letters
ESXi VMWare virtual machine hypervisor
NAS Network-Attached Storage
Plex Brand of media server package
ZFS Solaris/Linux filesystem focusing on data integrity

4 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 4 acronyms.

[Thread #528 for this sub, first seen 20th Feb 2024, 04:05] [FAQ] [Full list] [Contact] [Source code]

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I was about to fly off my handle when I heard this, and was about to send them an email to give them a good piece of my kind. But I chose to read first (don't do this very often) and I found that this applies to new customers only. I think this is pretty fair. I've been using Unraid for 5 years now, and have absolutely no regrets. Anyone thinking on getting an unraid license, now is the time.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Yeah, there have been posts saying "They're going subscription!!" and that's why I made this one. They're not going subscription. It makes me hella nervous that they might go subscription, but for now they're not. I'm alarmed and watching, but my pitchfork is still in the shed. ...for now.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Haha me too! I only use 6 drives but bought a pro key just to support. However, if I had to then pay more I would have felt wronged and would have joined the ESXi boys jumpimg on the proxmox train. Might ride that train someday just to learn it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Proxmox is great but if you are happy on unraid then it does make a lot of things simple that may or may not (depending on what we’re talking about) be as easy on PVE. For example, PVE is not a storage solution first; sure you can do lots of storage stuff but you should not host shares directly off it for example (set up a container or VM to host the shares passed through from the storage pool on the host box).

You get more control and customization (which is where I was very happy; I have a cluster and my network shares are a service I manage within that) but if you are looking for a NAS-first solution for a single server, give something like TrueNAS Scale a good look before you take the plunge.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They've gotta make money somehow.

Having a bunch of intentionally out of date systems seems like a bad idea though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm hoping security updates are always included, but new features could be gated by lifetime/subscription. But no word on that yet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah they don't mention it at all which is a bit concerning.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

At least they are being honest and keeping their word on the lifetime promise to those who bought those. How many other companies keep their word like that?

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