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In the past, donations were nice to have, but not critical to our operation. As you likely already know, RackSpace is ending our free hosting. While all of the PrimeGrid admins volunteer their effort, equipment, and electricity, as do all of its members, PrimeGrid needs to find and afford a home.
In choosing a path forward, we have considered both current and ongoing costs, as well as maintaining quality of service at the levels to which we've become accustomed. In doing so, the best option for PrimeGrid is to purchase servers and house them at a paid colocation service.
Moving forward, PrimeGrid needs to cover the 3,500 euro cost of the initial hardware purchase, and then needs to start covering the costs of colocation. Ultimately, we will need to plan for hardware lifecycle as well. We are quite appreciative of the donations we have received towards this effort, and you can see our progress here: https://www.primegrid.com/donations.php where it quickly becomes evident that we still have a ways to go.
Your contributions are greatly appreciated and will help keep PrimeGrid strong and viable in the years ahead. We have done a lot of great work here, and hope to ensure its continued success.
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So is PrimeGrid going to buy a real house? |
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So is PrimeGrid going to buy a real house?
Real servers, as opposed to cloud servers.
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Message posted on the private forum of the CRUNCHERS SANS FRONTIERES team appealing to the generosity of its volunteers.
Hope this will help somewhat.
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Question (and maybe it was answered somewhere else): are the donation funds to be used only for hardware purchases/lifecycles and hosting costs? |
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Question (and maybe it was answered somewhere else): are the donation funds to be used only for hardware purchases/lifecycles and hosting costs?
The donations page lists the currently planned expenditure. We are going to pay for the new servers (already ordered), colocation of them in a datacenter plus keep a fund for hardware replacement when the warranty of the new servers expire and they eventually fail. |
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We just received a new, much better quote for colocation, so the donation target has been updated accordingly. |
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May I ask where you plan to host the servers? Germany has some pretty good hosters with decent prices. Also - are you planing on putting both servers in the same location?
What are the specs of the machines? Quad-core machines with 64 GB Ram can be rented for 70€ a piece including traffic and everything. If you need more RAM - 256GB can be had for 140€ with a six-core cpu. And with that you don't need to worry about hardware failures (cost-wise).
But you probably already looked into that. |
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What are the specs of the machines?
The discussion thread has the server details.
We are going to host in Lithuania - it only makes sense to host close to where we are (and because of the terms of a very nice offer we got from Lenovo, the servers needed to be located in Europe).
We had some experience with a VPS earlier and were burned with that - while the initial offer was very nice, the provider later started limiting disk IO which slowed us down to a crawl (I guess they didn't expect the load from us). So to ensure the stability and performance we decided to go with our own hardware. |
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So, 3500€ is accomulated.
Do you mean that it still needs to accomulate 5000€ and then 3500€.
Is this urgent? |
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So, 3500€ is accomulated.
Do you mean that it still needs to accomulate 5000€ and then 3500€.
Is this urgent?
3500€ covers the initial server purchase (the servers have been ordered and we're waiting for them to arrive any time now).
We will need to pay 140€/mo for colocation, that's what the second bar of 5000€ covers (we plan for 3 years). So far we don't have money to pay for the first month, but we don't have to... yet. We will need it soon (although not the entire 5000€ amount).
The third bar is the aspirational hardware upgrade/replacement once the warranty of the current servers expire. So again, we don't need it just yet, but we want to plan for the dark day. |
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Quick update: we now have enough money to pay for the servers - and I just got news they will be delivered to me tomorrow. It will take a while to set things up, but the first major step is done. Expect photos :)
We are now in the next donation progress bar, which covers hosting both servers in the datacenter. It is going to cost us 140€ per month (5000€ for the next three years), so all your help is very much appreciated. |
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Since you collect donations via cryptocurrency , I suggest that you open and run Primecoin wallet.
All cryptocurrency market take some fee. And it is not same if you give them 0.001 BTC or 0.001 XPM or 0.001 GRC. So it is better for you and for us to send donations via GRC or XPM.
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The new servers are back in their boxes and I'll bring them to the datacenter tomorrow. Thanks to everyone who donated! |
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