[OpenSpending] Independently keeping the lights on: Ideas?

Wed Sep 24 16:43:27 UTC 2014

Hi,

Thanks for writing back. From my perspective, AWS is great when you need to
quickly scale up or down. For 24/7 usage, especially if there are no
massive peaks, it's significantly cheaper to use statically allocated
resources (dedicated servers or virtual private servers).

Would moving to DigitalOcean be an option? Or something else? I have been
personally very happy with iwstack.com operated by an Italian company
Prometeus with 17 years of hosting experience (see their server with 16 GB
RAM, 12 vCPU for €69 / month) -- but even a nice dedicated server can be a
good idea (online.net is one of the many low-cost options, so far I have
been pleased with cost/benefit and their support).

If finding decent hosting with low budget is important, I recommend
checking out lowendbox.com and lowendtalk.com -- while most of the offers
won't satisfy either performance requirements or reliability requirements,
you will find many pointers to companies that might. I'm personally running
about 20 Linux servers right now, many of them bought as deals at lowendbox
/ lowendtalk.

Just my two cents... :-)
Jan

On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 4:40 PM, Manish Dangol <dangol.manish at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello,
> May be we can add some data classes in the internet/event where we can
> raise some money may be not big enough but might get some resources.
>
> Regards
> Manish Dangol
>
> On 24 September 2014 17:46, Tryggvi Björgvinsson <
> tryggvi.bjorgvinsson at okfn.org> wrote:
>
>>  Hey Jan,
>>
>> Thanks for the quick response.
>>
>> I've updated the budget spreadsheet which Anders linked to in his email
>> from June (which I quoted in my last email):
>>
>> https://docs.google.com/a/okfn.org/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AvdkMlz2NopEdHhpUExMQWVTcmJVVWl1VWlwX05QWXc&usp=drive_web#gid=0
>>
>> I added a comment to the "Server costs" cell with what we're running now
>> (or will be running on Tuesday).
>>
>> /Tryggvi
>>
>>
>> On mið 24.sep 2014 10:26, Jan Gondol wrote:
>>
>>  Hello, what are the HW requirements for hosting? (Amount of data
>> stored, current number of nodes + estimated RAM needed on each node,
>> monthly bandwidth, peak traffic, CPU,...)
>> Jan
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 12:16 PM, Tryggvi Björgvinsson <
>> tryggvi.bjorgvinsson at okfn.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi again,
>>>
>>> (Sorry for cross-posting)
>>>
>>> As I mentioned in my previous email OpenSpending does not have a revenue
>>> source to pay for the hosting costs (and Open Knowledge has been very kind
>>> to help us out on that front).
>>>
>>> We have been looking into getting sponsored hosting for OpenSpending
>>> because the server cost is the biggest cost of the project. Irrespective of
>>> sponsored hosting or not, I think OpenSpending could benefit from not being
>>> "broke" so I wanted to start a discussion with you (the community) to see
>>> if you have any ideas for how we can get some sort of money into the
>>> project.
>>>
>>> The last thing I would want to do is charge users for hosting data on
>>> OpenSpending. I just think it feels weird to charge people who want to help
>>> increase government transparency. Another thing I'd like to avoid is
>>> removing functionality of the OpenSpending platform just because they can
>>> be expensive to do.
>>>
>>> But we do need to somehow connect money coming in with money going out
>>> (as more datasets are created the costs of storing/processing them goes up)
>>> so ideas where increasing costs are covered by some sort of increasing
>>> revenue are preferable but at this moment, anything is better than nothing,
>>> so all ideas are welcomed :-)
>>>
>>> I'm just thinking about brainstorming now. We can look into how viable
>>> the ideas are later.
>>>
>>> Do you have any ideas?
>>>
>>> /Tryggvi
>>>
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