I've been running the ASG/Sophos UTM virtual appliance for about 5 years now, on a little celeron server ( http://www.techradar.com/us/reviews/pc-mac/pc-components/motherboards/zotac-ionitx-p-e-925384/review ).
I've thought several times about buying an hardware appliance, nowadays it would be an SG105, in order to not have to deal with the virtualization issue, specially on that resource-constrained celeron server, which I'm also using for other stuff (recording DVB-C TV, a huge mongodb database, lot's of little servers for my IoT Devices (Arduinos, Raspberry Pi's with sensors))
The issue is that these hardware appliances have this licensing-scheme which is based on very expensive yearly subscriptions which is a no-go for this home network.
I wonder if it would be possible to buy an SG105 and if then Sophos could be so kind to hand out free licenses for non-commercial users, just like it does with the virtual appliance.
I'm only interested in using country blocking and the webfilter, that's what I'm using the virtual appliance for (and also for collecting stats via the syslog)
Does anyone have thought about this as well, and even talked with Sophos about this? Or is there anyone from Sophos reading this and might contact the sales department and ask if that's possible?
Kind regards,
Daniel
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