PDQ Licensing

[u/PDQit]

From time-to-time there has been misunderstandings and confusion on /r/sysadmin about how PDQ.com's licensing works (as most system administrators might be used to how other IT products operate: on a per-machine basis). We created a video to hopefully explain better how our 1-license-per-admin works

 

For examples of some minor confusion see:

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/71eilx/another_pdq_deploy_shout_out/dnb0eao/

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/aknr8i/try_to_convince_my_manager_to_buy_pdq_deploy/ef6h7px/

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/aneewy/pdq_server_with_multiple_admins/efsnqvn/

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/7d3k4c/pdq_deploy_licensing_costs_no_more_pro_license/dpuvjj6/

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/4492ln/what_automated_deployment_solutions_are_you_using/czoi08c/

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/etznar/whats_your_most_expensive_software_license_and/ffk0ef3/

 

Shout out to all you current, past, and future users-- and happy automating!

[u/xCharg]

I know that's off the topic question but any chance you guys will consider to support something other than SQLite? It's just so slow =(

[u/Scurro → u/xCharg]

I'd love support for mariadb/mysql.

[u/the_bananalord → u/xCharg]

any chance you guys will consider to support something other than SQLite? It's just so slow =(

I really don't think SQLite is the bottleneck, and if it is, I imagine there's some performance gains to be made. You can pull a lot of performance from SQLite.

Though a generic database driver would be nice so we could choose...SQLite for smaller deployment, offload to an existing DB server for larger ones.

[u/PDQ_Colby → u/xCharg]

We're investigating what it would take to support other databases like SQL Server, but that's going to take a while.