Welcome to Pre-sales Questions & Feedback — part of the APG vNext community forum.
About This Section
This is the place for pre-sales Q & A. You can also post any suggestions and feedback here.
Community Guidelines
- Search before posting — your question may already be answered
- Include your APG vNext version and server environment when reporting issues
- Attach error messages and relevant code snippets to help the team diagnose problems faster
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Pre-Sales Questions About APG vNext
This forum section is dedicated to questions from organizations and individuals evaluating APG vNext before making a purchasing or deployment decision. Pre-sales questions typically cover licensing, hosting requirements, scalability, integration capabilities, support options, and feature availability. The APG vNext community and the development team are active in this section to help evaluators make informed decisions about whether the platform meets their specific community requirements.
Licensing and Pricing
APG vNext offers multiple licensing tiers designed to match the needs of different community types and sizes. The Community Edition is available for small non-commercial communities and provides the full feature set with a limited number of concurrent connections. Commercial editions are available with volume pricing based on the expected user base size and provide additional features including premium support, advanced analytics, and white-label branding options. Contact the APG vNext sales team through the official website for current pricing and volume licensing arrangements for enterprise deployments.
Hosting and Infrastructure Requirements
APG vNext requires a Windows Server environment with IIS and SQL Server, as described in the requirements documentation. Hosting options include self-managed dedicated servers, VPS hosting from any Windows-compatible hosting provider, or Microsoft Azure App Service and Azure SQL Database for cloud-hosted deployments. Managed hosting providers familiar with ASP.NET web applications and SQL Server databases can host APG vNext without requiring the customer to manage the server infrastructure directly.
Scalability and Performance
APG vNext is designed to scale from small hobbyist communities with a few hundred members to large enterprise communities with tens of thousands of active members. Scaling is achieved through standard ASP.NET application horizontal scaling with load balancers, distributed caching with Redis, and SQL Server read replicas or Always On Availability Groups for database scalability. Provide your expected peak concurrent users and daily page view targets when requesting a performance recommendation from the APG vNext team.
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