Server licences and the report budget
A licence per server, what it buys and what it does not: how a host is identified, how licences are assigned and released, the report budget of one server, and exactly what keeps running on a host without a licence.
Server licences
The agent is licensed per server. Servers are their own pool and are counted separately from the domains of the Hive plugin, so installing the agent never costs you a domain.
| Plan | Servers included | More servers |
|---|---|---|
| Free | none | Not bookable |
| Contributor | none | Not bookable |
| Professional | 1 | Any number, self-service up to 200, beyond that through Enterprise |
| Business | 3 | Any number, self-service up to 200, beyond that through Enterprise |
| Enterprise | by contract | by contract |
| Licences on the account | Per server and month | Per server and year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 4 | 4.90 € | 49.00 € |
| 5 to 9 | 3.90 € | 39.00 € |
| 10 to 24 | 2.90 € | 29.00 € |
| 25 to 49 | 1.90 € | 19.00 € |
| 50 and above | 1.40 € | 14.00 € |
All prices incl. VAT. The yearly price is two months free on every step. The Business volume multiplier raises your domain count, not your included servers.
A host appears under Agent Servers in your account the first time its agent calls the API, with its install ID, its version and when it was last heard from. A spare licence is taken at once; without one the row says so and a button adds one. There is nothing to register in advance and nothing to paste into a file.
Identity is the install ID, never the hostname and never the key. Rotating the API key on a host does not create a second licence, and renaming the machine changes nothing. When you have more agents than licences, the oldest hosts keep theirs. A cancelled server licence keeps working to the end of the paid period plus a grace window on top.
Free and Contributor include no server licence. Once licensing is fully enforced, the agent there runs as a reporter with full local protection: it detects, blocks locally and reports, but it does not load the community blacklist. Until then, and with a complimentary licence on such an account, the agent loads the feed once an hour and takes addresses from a confidence of 90. From Professional upwards it loads the feed every 15 minutes, from a confidence of 75.
Licensing is being introduced in stages. Every server that reported to ReportedIP before the cut-over date keeps a free licence permanently.
Groups and webhooks
From Professional upwards, the keys of an account can be put into groups under Groups in your account. Every address one member reports is blocked on every other member for the group's window, on the servers through the group list and on WordPress sites through the Hive plugin, and a webhook per ban can notify a chat or a ticket system.
The report budget of one server
The daily report limit belongs to the account. On top of it every installation carries a budget of its own, worked out from the account limit and the number of servers on the account: 150 percent of its fair share, never below 50 reports a day and never above the account limit. One server gets the whole account limit, two get 75 percent each, three a half each, six a quarter each. Add a server and every budget falls by itself, remove one and they rise again.
Under Agent Servers in your
account you can pin a fixed
number on a single server, hand it back to the automatic budget, or stop that machine reporting
altogether. status prints it as a line of its own, so it cannot be mistaken for the
account figure:
this host: reports_today=17/25000 (automatic budget, counted, not enforced yet)What happens without a licence
One thing stops, and one only: the blacklist feed pauses, so the agent stops downloading new community data for that host. Everything else keeps running. A server must not become unprotected because an invoice was missed.
| Function | Without a licence |
|---|---|
| Feed download | Stops. This is the part that is paid for. |
| The list already in the kernel | Stays. It is never flushed, and it keeps blocking. |
| Local detection | Keeps running. All fourteen sources, all thresholds. |
| Local blocking | Keeps running, escalation and timeouts included, restore after a reboot included. |
| Reports | Keep going, within the daily limit of your plan. |
| Whitelist, chain, housekeeping, log rotation | Keep running. |
| Self-update | Keeps running. An outdated agent on an unpaid host puts everyone at risk, so updates never wait for a payment. |
status | Shows the licence state, the reason, the age of the list and what to do about it. |
The service is not stopped, the sets are not emptied, local bans are not lifted, and there is no advertising in the log. A free account can run the agent as a pure reporter with full local protection, and that is a legitimate way to use it.
Two mails cover that case. Stopping the agent, for instance with
systemctl stop reportedip-agent, sends exactly one mail to the address in
notify.email naming what this host stops doing from that moment; a reboot and a service
restart send none. And a host that has not been in contact for more than six hours produces one mail
to the account owner, bundled per account, with an all-clear as soon as it reports again. The mails about
silence name a host the way the portal does, the label first, then the hostname, then the first
characters of the install ID, and never the full install ID. The stop mail comes from the agent
itself and names the host by its hostname.
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