Re: [tdf-mirrors] Searching for infrastructure sponsors

Hi,

Sean McNamara wrote on 2012-10-31 14:26:

> A system with almost exactly these specs can be rented affordably,
> month to month, from Hetzner in Germany. I'm not sure if you were
> directly citing their specifications when you wrote this up, but it
> happens to be exactly matching one of their offerings (with an added
> cost for the 1 Gbit/s bandwidth).

we indeed are customers of Hetzner. Not exclusively, but with a majority 
of our machines. However, in times of growing demands, that will result 
in growing costs, I thought that asking for some sponsors might be 
helpful. :)

> One idea would be to have volunteers make a commitment to pay a
> fraction of the server bill on a monthly basis, and pool money to rent
> servers this way. If you need wide geographic distribution then the

That sounds like a good "plan B". We are drafting "wishlists" from the 
various teams (like the marketing team which would like to have 
collaterals printed), so people can see what they donate for. It is 
definitely an option to list infra costs there as well, should our call 
for sponsoring yield no results.

> number of servers you can have is less, because costs are much higher
> in places such as the U.S. and certain parts of Asia. You may be able
> to get a discount for being a non-profit entity, depending on the
> provider's policies.

Indeed, it seems that in Germany, hosting is cheap compared to other 
parts of the world. I was quite surprised when I learned e.g. how 
expensive it is in South America.

Thanks for your proposals, much appreciated!
Florian

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