Hi all,
The foundation has some money to spend on hardware. Given a budget of
~$200k, what would we buy?
I see two main options:
- More smithi-class machines. We would presumably take a closer look at
the available machines to make a reasonable choice, since it's been a few
years now... it might make sense to buy something a bit faster. I think
ideally, though, they would go into the same machine pool/class, since
that tends to lead to better overall utilization of the hardware.
- Build machines. If we buy more beefy boxes, we could reduce our
reliance on OVH cloud instances, which are averaging around $15k/month.
It'll be a larger initial outlay, but the ongoing cost would come down
(particularly since we're fortunate enough to have essentially free
datacenter space).
Thoughts?
sage
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