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eak819

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First I would like to say that ProxMox is awesome! There was some issues at the beginning but with the help of this community they were solved. Currently I'm running 8 windows machines and have an off site NFS backup on an old PC that runs FreeNas keeping my system snapshots. I do have a question about the subscriptions, I understand what the site is telling me, but can someone elaborate a little more about the benefits for the community subscription? I would like to purchase it but I also have to justify it for my companies budget.

Thanks,
Ethan
 
eak819 said:
First I would like to say that ProxMox is awesome! There was some issues at the beginning but with the help of this community they were solved. Currently I'm running 8 windows machines and have an off site NFS backup on an old PC that runs FreeNas keeping my system snapshots. I do have a question about the subscriptions, I understand what the site is telling me, but can someone elaborate a little more about the benefits for the community subscription? I would like to purchase it but I also have to justify it for my companies budget.

Thanks,
Ethan
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The benefits of the subscription are pretty plain forward. If you run without it, you're in a non-stable repository for updates. Since this is non-stable, your servers could be considered Non-stable. Now, I've got no-sub boxes out there running fine, but if it breaks, I've got no help to fix it.

Subscribing gives you access to the Enterprise, stable repository. These are secure, stable updates that will work, as they are tested and maintained rigorously. Plus, you're supporting the program you love so much.

If you go up to the other subs, you have a support path outside the forum, if you need a person that you can call when you need help.
 
Yea, if you buy the community support, you get just that: community support. Meaning: the non-subscription repository gets all updates first (after they pass internal testing) and then the community can use and test them with the tons of different hardware combinations out there. A little while later ( a month or so?) bugreports from non-subscription users get fixed and the packages put into the enterprise repository, so you get a community buffer to test the packages for you and you get them in your repository once theyre deemed completely stable.

Additionally as was mentioned already, you help the developers maintain their hardware lab and other things a project such as this one needs.
 
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