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Changes to Tailscale Pricing and Plans

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Re: Changes to Tailscale Pricing and Plans

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Post by sleepybrett »

KMnO4 wrote: post #54
morley wrote: post #13

I see a lot of love for Tailscale, but I'm curious what people use Tailscale for? Is it mostly to access services running on an internal network? Do you use it for work or for fun? The use case I can see is streaming from my personal Plex server from anywhere outside my home, but maybe I'm not thinking big enough.

Plex provides remote access without needing any additional services. Just enable it in the settings and you can access your library anywhere when you log in to plex.tv.

it sure does, and i'm not sure it's great. Didn't the bitwarden hack happen via a plex server on an engineers network?

Re: Changes to Tailscale Pricing and Plans

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Post by amluto »

I would love to see expanded personal options. The new free tier with 3 users is great, but trying to Tailscale for personal use for a family of more than three users while still using advanced features like Funnel is $18/user/mo, which is too high for personal/family use.

If anyone from Tailscale is around, would you consider a family or advanced personal tier for primarily non-commercial use, perhaps a moderate user limit, but more advanced features and lower pricing than Starter?

Re: Changes to Tailscale Pricing and Plans

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Post by ignoramous »

hjuutilainen wrote: post #3

I just got an email about this and here’s what they say: > Your plan is unaffected and you can continue to use the Personal Pro plan as you normally do. However, Tailscale's new Free plan includes nearly everything that Tailscale has to offer for up to 3 users on a custom domain and 100 devices. This plan may be more aligned with how you use Tailscale. Go to the Billing page in the admin console to review your option…

Love tailscale, but here's a company on the up, bouyed by the renewed impetus all around for zero trust, with its do no evil, free lunch for all, growth mindset. Comparing it with companies that have switched to rent-seeking is ironic, because if history is any indicator, most Day 1 companies of today will Day 2 out, eventually (not to say that being a Day 1 company is in anyway easy).

Re: Changes to Tailscale Pricing and Plans

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Post by maximilianburke »

morley wrote: post #13

I see a lot of love for Tailscale, but I'm curious what people use Tailscale for? Is it mostly to access services running on an internal network? Do you use it for work or for fun? The use case I can see is streaming from my personal Plex server from anywhere outside my home, but maybe I'm not thinking big enough.

We use it at work. All our services run on private IPs on our own vnets, and we access them with Tailscale. We don't need to run a VPN tunnel, or manage public IPs and firewall rules.

Re: Changes to Tailscale Pricing and Plans

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Post by wintogreen74 »

hjuutilainen wrote: post #3

I just got an email about this and here’s what they say: > Your plan is unaffected and you can continue to use the Personal Pro plan as you normally do. However, Tailscale's new Free plan includes nearly everything that Tailscale has to offer for up to 3 users on a custom domain and 100 devices. This plan may be more aligned with how you use Tailscale. Go to the Billing page in the admin console to review your option…

This is what github did a while ago, no? I was paying for some enterprise-y features that they added to the free plan and then stopped billing me. I know there's lots of MS hate here, but this was pretty unique IME

Re: Changes to Tailscale Pricing and Plans

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Post by codethief »

ShakataGaNai wrote: post #26

This is a really intelligent move on tailscales part. Yes, there are a few hobbyists who paid for the personal pro plan, I'm sure. But at $50 a year it's not exactly going to change the companies economics a lot. Then the next step was jumping into "Team" level which would actually be a major step down for a small hobbyist who wanted a lot of devices (Personal was 20 devices, Personal Pro was 100 devices, Team was 5x…

> Realistically hobbyists are not going to be the bread-and-butter of Tailscale's business, so why not let them go crazy

…and do the marketing for you. (Every other sysadmin is probably a hobbyist.)

Re: Changes to Tailscale Pricing and Plans

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Post by subarctic »

gilbertbw wrote: post #40

I'm a big Tailscale proponent, implementing it at work in early 2020. But for us I'm not sure this is great news. We have a small Tailnet of 5 users, paying $30 for the Team plan. If we went for Starter we'd save $18, but loose a lot of cool things Tailscale has come out with recently that we have been looking at, like user/group level ACLs, ACL Gitops,Tailscale SSH and Tailscale Funnel. Alternatively we'd pay $36 fo…

So they used to have a $6/month/user plan that included Funnel and SSH, but now they moved those to the $18/month/user plan? That doesn't sound great, and it's disappointing that that's not even mentioned in the article

Re: Changes to Tailscale Pricing and Plans

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Post by TylerE »

acer589 wrote: post #79
newman314 wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"- I have a bootmod3 WiFi adapter plugged into my street/track car with a combo 5G/Linux unit in the car connected to my Tailscale that streams continuous telemetry about the car whenever its turned on. I could in theory re-flash the ECU via this." Do you have a writeup or more details you can share around this? This sounds interesting.

lol it sounds like a line from a Fast & Furious movie

That sort of stuff is pretty common. Car guys have lots of disposable income. I'm certain there are devices out there that provide levels of telemetry that was only accessible to top-end racing teams just a decade or two ago.
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