I think an evaluation of several hosting options and establishing the infrastructure needs be done, before we earmark funds and make any plan changes.
I am concerned with how much horse power & cost has been amassed even after we have achieved a 501c3 status. On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 12:13 PM, Torrie Fischer <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi, all. > > Something I've wanted to do for quite some time is invest in some reserved > AWS > instances for synhak.org to reduce our monthly bill. The problem with > that is > paying the high up-front cost. Since we now have this $15k grant, I'd like > to > use a small portion of it to build what I consider an ideal synhak.org > infrastructure: > > * 3 year heavy reservations for two t1.micro EC2 instances @ $200 > * 1 year heavy reservation for one m1.small EC2 instance @ $169 > * 3 year heavy reservation for one m1.small EC2 instance @ $257 > * 3 year heavy reservation for one m1.small MySQL RDS instance @ $257.00 > > Total upfront cost: $883.00 > Estimated monthly cost to run synhak.org: $83.52 > Estimated cost without reservations: $206.62 > > Monthly savings: $123.10 > Yearly savings: $1447.20 > > One year commitment: $1002.24, approximately 14% of our 2013 membership > dues > income. > Three year commitment: $3006.72, approximately 8% of projected three year > income of $36,000. > > Our member dues already handily cover all our other bills. > > Here's my sources on the AWS calculator: > > > http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html#r=IAD&key=calc-E7EBCA4F-D171-416F-AB21-D1CFE82DE07B > > The two micros will be used as edge webservers to host the wiki and spiff. > The one year small will be a general purpose shell, phong, logging, and > event > processing server > The three year small will be a dedicated mailing list server > > I'm suggesting a one year reservation to avoid getting ourselves locked > into a > situation of needing more horsepower for administrivia but not able to > spend > more than $85/mo. I don't envision our mailing list server requirements > growing beyond an m1.small instance within the next three years, provided > it > remains dedicated to just mail. > > Our current AWS bill is $81.88/mo due to free tier expiring a few months > ago. > This investment will keep our monthly infrastructure bill roughly the same > while at the same time giving us a *lot* more room to grow for that same > price. For comparison, here is our current infrastructure: > > * Two t1.micro servers as web servers > * One t1.micro server as mail host > * One t1.micro MySQL RDS instance > > The following benefits will be realized with this $883 investment: > > * Faster performance on mediawiki, spiff, and other applications > * Less resource contention when mailman, postfix, phong, and document > rebuilding aren't all competing for the same pittance of CPU and memory > * Tighter security by establishing a bastion host setup resulting in > exactly > two public endpoints for synhak.org > * Room for growth in website activity and services offered > * Significant cost reduction in critical infrastructure will be secured for > three years > * We would have a really cool playground for devops hackers > * Current $80/mo AWS budget could be reallocated towards the maintenance > budget or funneled into a monthly Hacker Grant program. > > I would appreciate any feedback on this idea. > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://synhak.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >
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