Sell support.

I can't imagine that works very well for relatively small, simple, functional or intuitive projects though. Incentives wise, is it possible to sell reverse support: extracting payment for all the times the product works so well that support isn't needed?

Selling support can be rough. I talked with the developer of PyMol.

Many corporations wouldn't buy licenses and those that would pay for support wanted support for hardware that was 2 or 3 generations old.

Gentle reminder: please encourage your corporation to pay for open source support whenever possible.

That doesn't work. My day job is at scenario working on NATS and I can tell you 99.9% of people don't pay for support

As a NATS user, I can say that's mostly because it just works and when it doesn't it's pretty easy to figure out :)

yep, and you'd think someone that has seen that would pick a different model... idk, ngmi

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Bingo.

I came to the comments to see if anyone shared our opinion; +1

The Modelfile is an exciting abstraction, OP.

That feature was always a byline at best.

Good luck! My own attempt failed because SSO is down.

us-west-2 is the same price as us-east-1. Price is no excuse anymore.

Latency to Europe kind of is, if you want to be in a single site with acceptable ping times to Europe, US East, and US West. But I'd rather just solve replication and be in each.

If latency to Europe is an issue, why not just have a few machines in their Ireland datacenter?

Because distributing sites across multiple regions is hard -- high latency between your front end and database sucks, and replicating a database over high latency is also hard. If you can do it, great, but if you can't, then pick the best single region.

US East or US West plus Direct Connect to your own colo space, with AWS for the burst capacity, and your own redundancy for the database servers, might be the best plan if you can't do wide area "over the Internet" database replication. (I might get an extra 10G DC (since I need 1G DC myself) and then have some colo for sale with it in US East/US West later this year.)

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