Red Hat cutting back RHEL source availability

Posted Jun 25, 2023 20:12 UTC (Sun) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
In reply to: Red Hat cutting back RHEL source availability by richarson
Parent article: Red Hat cutting back RHEL source availability

> If I (or actually, my bosses) had to pay for every system we have, we'd be bankrupt.

What is the value of your systems being inaccessible for a week? Is it more than the cost of licenses for your machines? RedHat also supports popular public clouds with pay-as-you-go model.

So basically, either you pay for support, which is not cheap, but neither is it too expensive; or you accept the risk and go with one of the countless free alternatives (Debian, Ubuntu, Amazon Linux, Fedora, Gentoo, ...)

Red Hat cutting back RHEL source availability

Posted Jun 26, 2023 20:44 UTC (Mon) by richarson (subscriber, #74226) [Link]

As I said on another post, we have sufficient in-house expertise as to no need supoort most of the time, so we knowingly accept the risks, or better try to mitigate them (e.g. with HA) as much as possible.

The problem is, the main free alternatives that we're using (CentOS/Alma/Rocky) now are at the real risk that RH decides to cut them off.
I don't really think that's what RH wants to do but I'm afraid that it will eventually happend.

I like RHEL-based systems, I'd like to keep using them, but it *is* too expensive for us if we have to pay for all of our servers.