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News / Re: Pricing and release date announced

« on: 2014-10-10, 17:39:19 »

Good news! I will buy Fair SaaS (1ws + 3nodes, with year subscription, when it will be availiable), and will be able to buy when needed additional Fair SaaS (1ws + 5nodes) for my render-farm, if there will be commercial work or long personal renders.
So for my 10 PCs it will be 25 EURO per month (300 EURO per year), and additional 30 EURO per month, for a few months, if I have work with "full load", and with ability to cancel this additional subscription any time.
I am happy now :)

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News / Re: Pricing and release date announced

« on: 2014-10-08, 18:00:30 »

So you are willing to invest thousands of dollars into your hobby

Yes, near $3000 (2400 EURO) per three years, and that equipment will work three or five years more, without additional charges. So it is like near 500 EURO per year for 10 PCs, before they all burn.

but you can't afford Corona for a bunch of hundreds of euros?

Thousand of euros. I will need three Corona licenes for all PCs, 1350 EURO with box versions (for year or two, before next Corona upgrade), or 900 EURO per year.

You can just buy one seat. Since it's your hobby, i am not really sure why you need to DR on 10 computers at once. I would understand it in commercial environment, where you have some clients with requests and some deadlines, but since you say it's a hobby, then there should not be much of a need for such extremes as rendering on 10 computers at once.

Agreed. But when my render-farm will be ready, I will able to search for some work in that direction (I hope so :) ) With one seat it is simple money waste, if you have little farm at home. There are other renders, that can be used on render-farm, and they will be much faster  on 10 PCs, than Corona on one (or three) seats.

Electricity bills of those computers rendering for a bunch of days each month would probably easily grow over the price of SaaS licence.

$2-3 per render day, 24 hours of render.

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News / Re: Pricing and release date announced

« on: 2014-10-08, 17:22:46 »

Yes, or you can have one (1) work in a year and take for this 1K euro so you have to pay just 350...

I am not using Corona in commercial projects. And I don't have work in this direction (I am working as programmer, and need to pay for other equipment and software, so there no much left for hobby).

Just a curiosity, you have a little renderfarm, how does it cost to buy it and maintain it?

I had spent $2500 for two years to buy 5 used PCs (i7-2600K, 2700K, 16Gb RAM) There no videocards and no HDDs (diskless boot). This year, I had to spent additional $650 for rackmount and cases for them (PCs simply layed on the shelfs before). Also I wish to add three more PCs, to fill rackmount completely, but maybe will do it next year.
My two main PCs cost much more, but they used for other tasks, so I had to upgrade them every year.

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News / Re: Pricing and release date announced

« on: 2014-10-08, 16:38:35 »

I don't really understand why so many hobbyists are complaining about Corona pricing if they can afford 3ds Max.. (or can they..?)

As hobbyist, even if I cannot afford 3dsmax licence, I am trying to pay for licenses, and I will be glad to pay for Corona to support it development and be able to use daily builds. I can spend on Corona for my little render farm near 480 EURO per year, but not 1350 EURO. Yes, I can buy ONE license to use Corona on some of my PCs, but then Corona will be useless for me, as it will be slower that any other DR or Network Render on my home farm.
So instead to pay 480 EURO I will pay 0 EURO and use other renderer. That how it works :(

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News / Re: Pricing and release date announced

« on: 2014-10-08, 16:07:04 »

You use 10 computers to render personal/ non-commercial stuff (what's the electricity bill like)?

1 PC is taking 180W per hour, while it in render. I am rendering not often, so there not so much to pay for electricity. I bought most of  the PCs used, on local market, so they are cheaper than Corona box license :)

How much you would have to pay with v-ray? Can you calculate that? I do have a feeling that they offer 1 render node for free with you license.

Yeah, Vray have higher prices. But it is powerful instrument with years of expirience. It can be used for any tasks, it have tons of the tweaks, very flexible, and can render as fast as nobody can render. I am using Vray for the years. Vray 3.0 with Embree support it blazing fast on Intel CPUs.
With such prices on Corona I am not so interested in it. Vray seems to be more interesting solution in my case.

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News / Re: Pricing and release date announced

« on: 2014-10-08, 03:19:05 »

you will need to buy 3 licences. You will then be able to run Corona on 12 computers at once, with at most 3 of them being workstations

So in my case, it will be 75 EURO for Corona per month, = 900 EURO per year (for personal/non-commercial use). Or 1350 EURO for the box versions (for year or two, before next upgrade)...
Thanks, but that is too high for me.
Sad news :(

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News / Re: Pricing and release date announced

« on: 2014-10-08, 01:46:44 »

Hello there!

I have 7 PCs in my home render-farm, and planning to increase count to 10 (1 main PC + 9 render nodes). It not working as commercial render-farm. I am using it for my personal projects and for some commercial from time to time. So I want to ask, how much licenses I will need to buy to be able to use Corona on my PCs?

Thanks!