On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 02:01:22PM +0100, Jan Kundrát wrote: > Due to the nature of build jobs which constitute a pretty bursty > load, renting VMs sounds like a cost-effective approach for our > scale. I do not expect that it would make financial sense for us to > procure enough physical HW to cover the peak demand -- hence the > VMs.
But this means that we would be even more dependent on financial donations to be able to keep a functioning infrastructure, if I understand correctly? > Renting VMs also enables corporate sponsors to offer unused capacity for > less money, or even for free. Has anyone been in contact with hosters/providers to see what kind of sponsoring we could get? And it still increases our reliance on sponsors. -- Martin Sandsmark
