In all seriousness how is it possible that you're running a business and can't afford to pay what is basically a very small amount for some software?
I'm guessing you also have customers and are trying to figure out how it is that you can get them to pay you money so that you yourself can create a long-term business and create better products over time. Right?
I understand the need to be careful with spending. But you need to keep in perspective what's most important. if you're interested in using something as critical infrastructure but are not paying for it then you have to consider that that critical infrastructure is not going to get better more reliable Etc over time and is likely to die or be acquired. in that sense investing in critical infrastructure is arguably a more important investment to make then in the parking spaces or social events or Etc. Now don't get me wrong maybe you invest in none of the above. Out of curiosity if you later achieve business success and are no longer in bootstrapping mode, would you then feel comfortable paying?
Potentially, however, it won't meet our initial design objectives.
One is that we would have a single point of failure.
Another issue is that we can't count on it being expandable space-wise going forward past the single machine level, meaning we can't just assume "and we'll add more machines if data builds up."
I'd have to test at what level (in our system) we'd hit a wall with the throughput for a single-node setup.
We're open to paying once we're rolling. It's more that you've so far only said "basic is $400" and it isn't clear what that means or what will drive people to "more than basic." It's hard to get suprised, and then be waiting for the "fool me twice" pricing to come. I've been a fan of your work since Typhoeus and that's part of why I was happy to bet on you making influx amazing. I just didn't see the pricing risk coming (maybe I should have). For our perspective, the pricing issue is scary because a load test can be high volume without the normal correlation to "really big enterprise business" that makes it a good way to price.
That will be released and documented with 0.12, which should be in April.
What I meant by basic was that it would be a highly available cluster but not have other features that we have planned. It'll have recoverability, hinted handoff, anti-entropy for eventual consistency and a management and monitoring UI. It will most likely be limited by the number of cores.
Other features like role based access control and other applications we haven't started building yet will be in other pricing packages.
We haven't yet figured out the pricing for scale out clusters and those other features.
I'm guessing you also have customers and are trying to figure out how it is that you can get them to pay you money so that you yourself can create a long-term business and create better products over time. Right?