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Re:Nginx 1.13 released with TLS 1.3 support by sbarre on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @06:44AM (#14201966)
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? ;-)

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Re:Nginx 1.13 released with TLS 1.3 support by shawabawa3 on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @09:43AM (#14202835)
> 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.

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Re:Nginx 1.13 released with TLS 1.3 support by sbarre on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @11:51AM (#14204055)
Agreed! Sounds like this was not the solution for you...
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Re:Nginx 1.13 released with TLS 1.3 support by sandGorgon on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @07:33AM (#14202142)
>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.

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