That again required a completely new QA strategy, as now AS needs to be tested more broadly on all supported distros and distro versions. This required a lot of work not bundling dependencies ourselves but using distro packages. AS had a several issues which isn't that visible on the user front ends, a lot of these issues has been resolved - like apt/rpm repositories are now available. Yes, you're right Access Server didn't see too much development for some time. But I can share a little bit about the development. I dunno much about the business/sales part. Look for his “Pritunl VPN with Wireguard” video.Īn OpenVPN Core team developer here. If you want to see a demo and setup tutorial, I can highly recommend that you check out “Awesome Open Source” on YouTube. It allows you to run a VPN appliance with a web user interface and supports both the OpenVPN protocol as well as Wireguard. If you are after an OpenVPN alternative, I highly recommend that you check out Pritunl. I’m very impressed with the performance of Wireguard, especially with higher speed links (the maximum throughput of Wireguard is much higher than that of OpenVPN). I’ve also been looking at other alternatives. I have a year to work out what I am doing. I have my own theories of why they are doing this from a company perspective as well. There is so much they could be doing to justify their money, but development has pretty much halted on the product, so I think they are milking it hard with pandemic work from home. I reminded them that I’ve seen very little change in the 5 years I’ve been using OpenVPN-AS. OpenVPN claim that the price increase is justified due to their development of the product. I have no guarantee that my clients will renew at the same licensing count as we slowly return back to work as normal, so while I have a high number of licenses now, I’m likely to be half that in 12 months as licenses simply won’t be renewed. My issue here is that I sold (as well as many other resellers) bucket loads of licensing in March 2020 due to pandemic and work from home.
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With small license counts you pretty much get reamed. It’s a sliding scale where you need to be around 300-400 licenses before the price increase is more negligible and a little easier to palate. In summary, if you have less than 750 licenses you will be paying more. This gives me another year to work out what I am doing. I managed to get quotes done by OpenVPN to lock in the “old” pricing for the next renewal round of my licensing. I had many emails back and forth about this. Then I got the email about two weeks ago saying the fixed key licensing will be the same price as the subscription. I kept saying no as the math didn’t work out. I purchase licenses and then resell them to my clients. They were hounding me for months about changing over to it. This has come off the back of their new subscription program.