On Thu, 13 Jul 2017, Jaromil wrote:

>
> considering the sponsored servers are late to come and according to my
> survey about prices, quality of support and conditions for additional
> IPs, I believe we should consider using EX-41 on Hetzner for our hired
> servers:
>
> https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/matrix-ex
>
> this will cost us 50eur/m ex-VAT for 30TB traffic and unlimited
> internal traffic and 0.89eur/m per additional IP up to 6.
>
> if more than 6 ips are needed then they should be ordered in a subnet
> block and paid monthly, still prices are reasonable, see
> https://wiki.hetzner.de/index.php/IP-Adressen/en
>
> If there are no objections from leading devs then I'll proceed with
> this.
>
> Daniel: we are still on time to move also the current gitlab server
> there, what do you think? price is pretty much the same and internal
> traffic is the main advantage for our ganeti. we would then start with
> two of these servers on the same premises, with an infrastructure cost
> of approx 1500, counting also 14 or 30 ips. Considering the current
> state of donations in devuan we can maintain such a cost for at least
> 4 years from now. Donations keep coming ATM, but at a lower rate. I'm
> confident our financial conditions will only improve in the future.

Quoting a fellow Tor exit operator and friend (about hetzner):

> Snooping, horrible upload, upload is 50mbits, download lucky to get
> 500. "gigabit guaranteed" my arse. i had a dedi.


Jaromil: What happened with online.net? We considered that at some point
but I don't remember why we didn't go through.


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