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  1. Do you need a license "upgrade"? Pro gives you all features in perpetuity with unlimited storage devices and no annual upgrade/maintenance fee.
  2. All licenses provide all Unraid features. The only difference is the number of storage devices that can be attached to the server when the array is started. There is no difference between the Unleashed license and the Pro license other than the fact that Unleashed now has an annual update/maintenance fee. The Lifetime license is just Unleashed with lifetime updates/maintenance.
  3. I believe this is one of the stated reasons for the pricing change. They need more reliable and steady income to hire more developers to provide new features quicker than they can now. I may not be remembering that correctly, but, for some reason that sticks in my mind as a reason for the pricing changes.
  4. This is not without precedent. When fiber optic Internet came to my neighborhood 20+ years ago, we were all promised free installation ($2700 actual cost) and speed increases as they became available with just a monthly ISP payment. I was among the first to sign up. For 15 years they kept their promise. About 7 years ago we "legacy" users were told that our speed would be capped at 100 Mbps. If we wanted more, we had to renounce our legacy status and pay $30 a month to the fiber optic provider (a consortium formed by 15 cities) + the ISP fee or pay $2700 for the "installation" and skip the $30 a month fee. I have no crystal ball and have no idea what will happen in the future with legacy Unraid licences, but, given their transparancy up to this point, I don't think they will start penalizing legacy users unless they pay up.
  5. I think it is just due to the nature of Unraid development and philosophy. Limetech historically has taken a very long time to develop and test new releases (even minor ones). There are a lot of variables in a product such as Unraid which tries to run on as many hardware platforms as possible. They also thoroughly test to make sure no data loss will result from a new version of the software. It all takes time. The product also seems to be driven a lot by user requests/needs and priorities can change. I think they would rather just "go with the flow" than publish roadmaps that may change a lot. I do not speak for Limetech. If they did provide roadmaps, we would all likely be complaining about versions/features not making published deadlines. I was a software product manager for 25 years and was in charge of many roadmaps. We rarely ever made the published timelines due to unforeseen engineering roadblocks and trying to control "feature creep." It got to the point that I really has to pad the timelines and then customers complained about excessively-long development cycles. Roadmaps are doubly difficult for small companies with limited resources.
  6. Look in Apps in the GUI and see if any of the mail server options offered there meets your needs.
  7. Agree to disagree on this point. Call it what you want but it is not a subscription. For five years I managed a product line for a software company that had a true subscription pricing model. The customers paid monthly. As soon as they stopped paying, the software and service it provided stopped working and was terminated. This is not what Limetech is doing. But, hey, if you want to believe it is a subscription, that is your right.
  8. I likely would have felt the same way at first glance if the new pricing was the pricing in 2011 when I bought my first Unraid license. I have faithfully avoided and abandoned all software that has gone to a subscription model over the years; however, what Limetech is moving to is not subscription pricing, it is an annual maintenance fee. If you don't pay the fee, your software still works, your data is still intact, etc. Subscriptions do not work this way. You don't pay and your software quits working. After looking at other options, I very probably would have come back to Unraid for my NAS if the new pricing had always been the way it is moving to and "gambled" yearly on whether or not to pay the fee while I saw where Unraid was headed. It is still a great bargain for what it provides. I have followed this pattern with software that offers a perpetual license for a particular version but comes out every year with a "new and improved" version for which I have to pay an upgrade fee. I will often skip a couple of years and run older software until something new comes along that compels me to upgrade. It will be interesting to see how this plays out for Limetech but I understand and support what they have done with pricing. I am just grateful now to be grandfathered in with my three perpetual licenses. After March 27, that option will not exist for new users.
  9. The official Plex docker is supported in Plex forums, not here. Binhex and Linuxserver versions of Plex docker are supported in these forums. They are all just different packaging of the same code with the same functionality; not a lot of differences really. You may still find some help here if someone is able to point you in the right direction or you may be referred to the Plex support forums.
  10. I believe Limetech has stated you can use it whenever you wish. No time limit on activation.
  11. Yes, you are fine. The license key is associated with the GUID of the flash drive to which it was registered. Since your new Pro key is registered with the new flash drive GUID, there are no issues in transferring over the config folder from the "backup" flash drive to the new one.
  12. The config folder on the current USB flash drive contains all the information you need to retain your current configuration. Of course, you don't need the Plus.key file as that is your reserve plus key and the new Pro.key file will be on the new USB drive. Copy the entire config folder (minus the Plus.key) to your new Pro license USB flash drive.
  13. Yeah, that was the biggest reason I set it up as an unassigned device. I formatted it as NTFS so I could just pull it out of the server and read it natively in Windows, if needed. I have a similar setup on my other two Unraid servers and the UD syslog is working fine so there is something specific that changed on the affected server. <custom> no longer shows as the syslog location on any of the three servers, but, two are working as expected and one is not.
  14. Is this still possible? I have an unassigned flash disk called SYSLOG to which syslog was writing to a <custom> location. I changed the server_folder line in /boot/config/rsyslog.cfg to point to the UD location: server_folder="/mnt/disks/SYSLOG/" In rsyslog.conf, changed the $template remote variable to point to the UD location: $template remote,"/mnt/disks/SYSLOG//syslog-%FROMHOST-IP%.log" This quit working for me a couple days ago and reverted to an Unraid share. Making the above changes and restarting the syslog server just changes the above line back to reference the share. It appears <custom> no longer works. Has something changed? Perhaps it is related to a recent change in the Unassigned Devices plugin as that has been updated several times the past couple of weeks.
  15. I believe this is the answer. Just limited to 12 attached devices.