Legacy license holders

[God]

Hello,

I should upgrade from Legacy base - are time to move on, on a regular subscription?

Thanks.

 

[Richard G]

It depends on what you want. We just run Almalinux 9 which is EOL in 2032.
It more that MariaDB and MySQL will be EOL next year (MariaDB in june) which might be a decision maker.

Everything else will still work, so there is still time to move on to a regular subscribtion.
I don't know how long DA keeps offering it, but if you have an external lifetime legacy license, it can be converted (1 time) to a modern license at 50% of the price as long as you keep paying for it. For some this is too much, for some others this is interesting.
But it's a choice one can make.

 

[God]

MariaDB 10.6.x Enterprise its end in 3 years and 10 months (2029)

 

[cjd]

Both, I use the old license for basic hosting and the new license for everything else.

When the time comes that I have to retire the old ones there will be a price adjustment when switching.

 

[DrWizzle]

I was too late to the party I'm afraid. Was cPanel for years before I changed to DA. Always had standard licences.

 

[Richard G]

MariaDB 10.6.x Enterprise its end in 3 years and 10 months (2029)

DA does not use the enterprise version but the normal version, so Juli 2026!
There is a very slight chance they grant us connection to the OS version of Alma 9 which is 10.5 and then we could get the OS updates of MariaDB, but it's very unsure if they are willing to do that.