Vagrant Cascadian <vagr...@debian.org> skribis: > On 2024-07-02, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> We (Andreas, Chris, Ricardo, Romain, and myself) were having a >> discussion about what it would take to set up a build farm similar to >> what’s behind ci.guix: roughly 30 x86_64 servers, with 32-core/64-thread >> CPUs and 128 GiB of RAM. The reason for this discussion is that we were >> thinking that we should not take our existing build farms for granted >> and be prepared for the future. >> >> The various options and back-of-the-envelope estimates we came up with >> are as follows: >> >> 1. Buying and hosting hardware: >> 250k€ for hardware >> 3k€/month (36k€/year) >> >> 2. Renting machines (e.g., on Hetzner): >> 6k€/month (72k€/year) >> >> 3. Sponsored: >> get hardware and/or hosting sponsored (by academic institutions or >> companies). > > This may be a little wild, but what are the downsides to doing some > combination of all of the above? Maybe higher bandwidth requirements > between the various pieces of infrastructure presumably being hosted in > different locations? Maybe also a little more complexity in the overall > setup?
Good point. In practice we’re already doing a combination of the above and I agree that there are probably advantages to keep it that way. My understanding is that Debian does #3 exclusively, with sponsorship coming from a variety of organizations. Ludo’.
