I understand that Root’s projects are open source. However, how does the company make money? I have seen some posters discuss that Roots charges $50 per month per server, but I do not see anything on the website, nor have I heard anything on the podcasts.
Roots makes money by selling products: screencasts, plugins, books, etc. We also sell our time for freelance and consulting work. These are one-time purchase prices which are completely opt-in (obviously).
We don’t charge “per server”. You can use our open source projects completely free. I’m really confused why anyone would be talking about us charging $50 per month per server since that’s never been true and isn’t even really possible as we aren’t a hosting company.
It was this post by RiFi2k, where he says Roots does DoS mitigation automatically.
OK. How much are Roots’ plugins? Are they central to how the base products work? I am trying to figure out what I am getting into. Right now I am just using docker compose/swarm with the official containers for wordpress and mysql.
You can find them all here https://roots.io/plugins/ (only 3 are paid). They aren’t required and you can easily do without them if you want.
Thanks. Lots of stars on Github for Trellis, Bedrock, and Sage. I will give them a try.