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NCache Software

1. ** Free Dev Workstations and Dev/QA Servers: these include Dev Workstations and Dev / QA Servers. All of them include NCache API and a stand-alone local cache. Dev Workstations can access the local cache with performance limitations. Dev Workstations can also access remote cache clusters but with performance limitations. Dev / QA Server is a stand-alone cache server with a max of 2 remote clients, a max 2 GB aggregated cache size, and performance limitations. Local clients are free and not counted.
2. Mid-Year Subscription License Pro-Rated Purchase: you can purchase additional subscription licenses mid-year on a prorated basis. You are charged upfront for all the remaining months until the end of the subscription period and the initial month is prorated. Additionally, these subscription licenses are automatically renewed at the end of the subscription period unless you specify otherwise.
3. Mid-Year Perpetual License Pro-Rated Purchase: you can purchase additional perpetual licenses mid-year with annual support and maintenance on a prorated basis. You are charged upfront for all the perpetual licenses and only the remaining months for annual support and maintenance. The annual support and maintenance are automatically renewed at the end of the period unless you specify otherwise.
4. Move Licenses (On-Prem, Multi-Cloud): you can move NCache licenses from one environment to another by deactivating/reactivating them when needed. You can also share licenses between on-premises and Azure / AWS and other clouds, and also from one cloud platform to another. However, moving licenses is only possible for unexpired subscription licenses, or in the case of perpetual licenses only if your annual support and maintenance is active for them.

NCache Cloud

1. ** Free Dev Workstations and Dev/QA Servers (Non-hosted): You have to install and deploy these yourself. These include Dev Workstations and Dev / QA Servers. All of them include NCache API and a stand-alone local cache. Dev Workstations can access the local cache with performance limitations. Dev Workstations can also access remote cache clusters but with performance limitations. Dev / QA Server is a stand-alone cache server with a max of 2 remote clients, a max 2 GB aggregated cache size, and performance limitations. Local clients are free and not counted.
2. Fully Managed Servers (Azure, AWS): NCache Cloud servers are hosted in Azure or AWS and fully managed by Alachisoft. You are given secured access to them through VNET/VPC Peering or a Private Link. NCache Cloud is deployed into one or more deployment environments for you (prod, DR, staging, test, QA, etc.). You select a Region and an Availability Zone for each deployment environment where 2+ NCache Cloud servers are deployed and hosted. You can manage these deployments through the NCache Cloud Portal to add or remove servers as you need. And, you manage and monitor all the caches on these servers through the NCache Management Center.
3. Hourly Use / Annual Subscription: you can start using NCache Cloud on an hourly basis (Pay as You Go). Then, once you are comfortable, you can upgrade to an annual subscription in which you can still keep some of your NCache servers on an hourly usage basis while keeping others on one-year reservations with substantial discounts. You can add or remove servers to your subscription yourself by using the NCache Cloud Portal.
4. Data Transfer Fees: for most customers, data transfer fees will be less than 10 percent of their cost, but will vary based on usage.
5. Windows / Linux Infrastructure: you have the option of deploying NCache servers on Windows or Linux infrastructure. NCache Cloud is 100% native .NET and therefore provides very strong support for both Windows and Linux. If your applications are deployed on Windows and you want the same for NCache Cloud, then you can have a fully supported Windows-based NCache Cloud deployment available to you. Similarly, if you want to deploy NCache Cloud on Linux (either to reduce your cost or for compatibility with your application that might be deployed on Linux), then you can choose Linux as the infrastructure for NCache Cloud and it works seamlessly.
6. ENT-1 / PRO-1 as Dev/QA Servers: use these server plans only as Dev/QA servers and not for production or other high transaction or high availability sensitive environments.

Notes:

NCache Software is online product, available free to evaluate for 30 days with all features and no performance or other limitations. You can either download it from our website or use a preconfigured Docker image from Docker Hub. Upon download or registration, you are given an Install Key that you must enter at install time or afterward in case of a preconfigured Docker Image. This activates NCache for 30 days but you can extend it 30 days at a time and up to 120 days total by contacting sales.

Upon purchase of NCache Software, you will receive a license key that you can use either on-premises or in any cloud as BYOL. Entering the license key converts the product from evaluation mode to a purchased copy without any re-installation. And, the product works for one or more years (based on how many years of subscription you have purchased) or perpetually if your licenses are perpetual. And, at the end of this subscription period, you must renew the subscription or NCache will stop working. However, you’re given ample alerts at renewal time.

* NCache Enterprise and Professional Software are both licensed on an annual subscription basis in both client/server and server-only licensing models. This annual subscription allows the customers to buy additional licenses/servers mid-year until the end of the subscription period on a prorated basis. A grandfathering option is available for existing NCache Enterprise Software customers, with perpetual client/server and server-only licensing models, that allows them to continue to purchase NCache Enterprise under the same licensing scheme.

*** In both server-only and client/server licensing models, the servers are licensed based on a combination of RAM and vCPUs matching different server plans. Each server plan consumes a set number of licenses matching that plan. In server-only licensing, the clients are free whereas in client/server licensing the clients are licensed separately. You can change server plans without a new purchase by reusing licenses from one server plan to another. In legacy client/server licensing available only to existing customers as a grandfathering option, one license is equal to 4 vCPUs or 4 Cores. The total number of licenses consumed in each NCache client or each NCache server is equal to the number of vCPUs or Cores divided by 4. However, a minimum of 2 licenses are consumed per NCache client or NCache server regardless.

**** Remote Client includes NCache API, and for Enterprise edition also Client Cache (InProc/OutProc). Can access cache clusters remotely. Multiple connections from the same VM / Docker instance are still one client.

***** Service packs to the product for fixing bugs and problems are provided free of charge even without Annual Support and Maintenance. However, new releases of the product are not provided free of charge without Annual Support and Maintenance.

For the product Software License Agreement click here