Latest Update Not Good, Unreasonable Pricing Structure
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I’m not a person who typically leaves negative reviews, but the latest update is leaving a very bad taste in my mouth.
No longer can you use the “Restore” feature in the “Backups” area:
Restore” functionality has been moved to a paid extension
As a fellow developer, I get it: they need to make money from their plugin, which is perfectly fine. What’s not fine is the way in which this is occurring — the sabotaging of a basic feature.
Backups should be deleted and stored off the server
There are reasons why someone may choose to keep backups on their server and even restore from them, even if for simple redundancy in having it there + somewhere else, and convenience.
You know what this also prevents? Using FTP to directly upload your All-In-One backups rather than through your browser, which I’ve needed to do on many different hosts when the plugin fails for whatever reason during the upload process.
Mind you, I’ve purchased their multisite extension, as well as their unlimited upload extension in the past, so I’m not adverse towards paying for a good product. What I am adverse to, however, is this line on their website for the “Unlimited” extension:
Use on any number of websites that you own
As freelancers know, you don’t “own” a client’s websites even if you built it and manage it. What this line says is that you have to buy it at least twice: once for you, and once for any client you wish to use it for. This gets expensive fast if you’re lucky enough to have multiple clients. A much more acceptable pricing structure would be something in the same vein as Advanced Custom Fields.
Additionally, the two licenses that I mentioned earlier? They don’t even work with the newest version of All In One WP Migration.
Very disappointing.
On a side note, they offer a monthly or yearly price option too. However, you wouldn’t know it though unless you contacted them directly, as it’s not on their website. This entails paying $30 a month OR $319 a year.
Let me be clear about this: this was a good plugin. Heck, it probably still is for a lot of people. Unfortunately, that circle of people is way more narrow than it was before.
Please change your pricing structure to be something more reasonable.
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Yani,
It’s pretty clear that those 2 extensions are not what is causing me to write this post (hence them being mentioned as an afterthought), though, if you wanted to know, the update function has not worked on the 2 extensions for awhile.
Again, the point of the post is the recent plugin update and the pricing model.
Generally speaking, you can make a site-wide backup for free at most hosting companies via Plesk or WHM/cPanel. You can automate these backups as well and have them apply to all websites on said server if you wish. Providers that don’t offer it for free generally have a small, nominal fee and back up redundantly.
The primary benefit to All In One WP Migration is that it edits the paths & URLs (serialized and non-serialized) so that they correspond with the environment you import to. In other words, if you move a staging website to production, it makes the process a bit more quick. This can be done with other plugins as well, or without them by using FTP (manually or via deployments) + MySQL Dump + the Search Replace DB script (for updating the aforementioned serialized/non-serialized data). However, it’s nice to save a few minutes by automating the task a tad bit more.
Instead of offering the plugin as a service for those who have many clients, please consider a fixed pricing model as seen with WP Migrate Pro, which it looks like I’ll be switching to unless I end up developing my own plugin.
Lastly, I’m not trying to cause you issues. Simply put, it’s hard to justify paying for a $30/month subscription for automating a task of this nature and you’d likely see more buy-in with a fixed price model.
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