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| Hi there,
I have a question around the potential costs of running these modules. I appreciate your desire to devise a profitable business model and this post is not about that. It is instead about maintaining affordability in my own site work and whether the subscription might be my community site's killer at the same time as it assists in its growth. The fee system is problematic in that it basically seems to equate each community member with a full blown portal.
If I have 100 users in my community, I understand I'd be paying $2.50 to Smart-Thinker straight off just to let each have their own page. Given the nature of forum and community-driven sites, I could very easily end up with hundreds of users, each having their personal page... and at $2.50 per head for the first 100, what potential cost would I be facing if I had say 500, 1000 users or more?
Given that these modules are only one component of the portal system, the potential for this to blow out to thousands of dollars to run a community portal is a real risk. To try and make a comparison... if I had to pay 2-3 dollars to ActiveModules for each forum user I have sign up, I'd have to give it up. It just makes no sense.
Also, what happens about portals that do not use the modules? I can see some logic in paying a fee per website enabled by these modules, but I also have existing self-contained business sites on my DNN instance that would not be using the modules. Do all portals counted towards the 100 even if only 20 of them use the modules?
The fee may well seem like a reasonable cost per business portal.. and it is. but it's a pretty high cost to pay per community member, given that that would be the primary purpose of the portal system built on these modules.
So.. the main query is about the cost of say a thousand users/portals.. how much would that be?
I appreciate that bulk fees are likely to be variable, so please reply by email if that is preferable.
Best regards,
Rob
P.s. I can't seem to get the forum editor to space out my paragraphs... I'd not normally post one huge paragraph like that. |
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| Re: License fee blowout? (N/A) |
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Hi Rob,
The Enterprise License is a 100 PORTAL license, not a 100 USER license. You could get the Gold License for 10 Portal and have 1 000 users on each portal and that would still be valid as long as you did not use the module on more than 10 child and parent portals. There is no cost per user (although you would be constrained by the scaleability of DNN for having so many pages on a portal). Bear in mind that the HomePage module makes a page per user and not a portal per user.
Portals that do not have the modules added to a page on that portal do NOT count towards the limit.
Sorry for the style - it's a CSS/skin issue I have not had time to figure out yet - very frustrating but if you leave double spaces it works ok.
Thanks
Rodney
See our modules in action on PokerDIY, a social network for home poker players
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| Rodney,Re: License fee blowout? (Australia) |
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| Hi Rodney,
thanks for the reply. I had just that second also figured out where I went wrong above. I had of course thought that the homepage module created subportals rather than just pages... phew!
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| Re: Rodney,Re: License fee blowout? (N/A) |
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Hmmm... now that is a lucrative pricing model I may have to consider ;)
Out of interest I posted a post in IE7 and I could not make the double spaces, but it works in FF 2.0... very odd... will make a note to investigate one day!
Thanks
Rodney
See our modules in action on PokerDIY, a social network for home poker players
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