Oh please make an intro to AWS class! I'm in the process of right now creating infrastructure for a start up and AWS is an amazing tool, but there is a bit of a learning curve.
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 12:37 PM, Craig Bergdorf <mm1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sounds like a great idea. I would hate to be stuck fighting to keep > everything up as membership grows once our new location is known to Akron. > The 1 year term looks good too, since as synhak is changing very rapidly > these days, next year may look different than anyone can predict; if you > asked me a year ago if we would have a check for $15k i would have > laughed. Also having some overhead would make an 'intro to aws class' > possible. > > > On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 12:13 PM, Torrie Fischer <tdfisc...@hackerbots.net > > 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 >> Discuss@synhak.org >> https://synhak.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@synhak.org > https://synhak.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- Thanks, Byron D Moran Software Development Consultant (330)992-9766
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