Hardware lifetime pfSense+ instead of yearly costs
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Hi,
it would be much easier for our company to buy a hardware lifetime pfSense+ license instead of the yearly costs.
So if we calculate 10 years for the own hardware this will be 10 x 129$ = 1290$ once.
Maybe an idea for sales, not sure this is possible at all. -
@slu Netgate has several models that cost less than $1290. But I take it you prefer your own hardware?
One challenge I see is, if the license is tied to hardware/NICs, than repairing custom hardware becomes a licensing challenge. For instance, what if your NIC dies 1 year into a 10 year license?
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@SteveITS said in Hardware lifetime pfSense+ instead of yearly costs:
But I take it you prefer your own hardware?
Yes that's the point, because nothing really match for our setup.
@SteveITS said in Hardware lifetime pfSense+ instead of yearly costs:
For instance, what if your NIC dies 1 year into a 10 year license?
But this is the same with a 1537 or I'm wrong?
In such case the NID will be reset to match the new hardware components? -
Call our sales guys and ask. We do have special arrangements with some customers.
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@stephenw10 said in Hardware lifetime pfSense+ instead of yearly costs:
Call our sales guys and ask.
Unfortunately there is no possibility for another license model.
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What hardware are you specifying for your use case?
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@stephenw10
we have already one year old server hardware, so no replacement is needed at the moment.
The new Netgate 8300 was one year to late ;)If we replace the current hardware in future we take something like the 8300...
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Ah, I see. Well better going forward then at least.
