Hi,
I run a lab with about 80-90 windows servers, for learning purposes (NOT for commercial or profit reasons).
I was wondering if there’s any special pricing for this type of use case?
More than 90% of our users are on our free Community Edition, which you just download and use. If the app nags you about a license you can say you are no longer evaluation then say yes to personal use. The community edition only supports managing a few certs per install, but in environments where each server has a single purpose that’s usually ok.
Our licensing is effectively an “honesty box” and plenty of businesses use the app without licensing it, but plenty of personal users also license it to support the product (and to get support). Ultimately we compete against hundreds of free tools so the choice is there for everyone to make.
My other question then is would the community version work with the forthcoming dashboard? That functionality would be good.
Hi,
Currently you would be able to get Certify Management Hub working (and it would be interesting to us if you did get it running in your environment as we are keen for people to alpha test and provide feedback) https://docs.certifytheweb.com/docs/hub/
We plan to make the Certify Management Hub a commercial product but the current alpha release has no licensing, and the respective alpha version of Certify Certificate Manager (v7.x) required to talk to it is available as the community edition.
[The actual dashboard product doesn’t currently have a free version, as it consumes cloud resources we pay for]
My final question is, certifytheweb dashboard and hub seems very similar. One is cloud hosted and one is on prem, is this right?
Yes, dashboard is hosted at dash.certifytheweb.com and receives status reports from Certify Certificate Manager via our API. It just shows the latest reported information and cannot control or update anything.
Certify Management Hub is a self-hosted product which can be used as a standalone certificate manager (with a web UI instead of our Windows desktop app), You can also connect individual installs of Certify Certificate Manager to the hub to see all their managed certificates across many servers, and also make changes or add new managed certificates on those instances.
Long term I expect most users with many servers will use the Management Hub product rather than use the dashboard.