[57north-discuss] Hosting servers

[Robert McWilliam]

On Sat, 24 Jul 2021, at 23:15, Tony Travis wrote:
> On 24/07/2021 16:52, Robert McWilliam wrote:
> > 6x250W comes to about £2400/year (with what I'm paying for electricity, I don't know how that compares to price at the hackspace). And north of £3k/year if they're mostly busy and at the 350W each end of the range. What were you thinking for metering/covering cost of the electricity usage?
> 
> I was thinking about 57North paying for the electricity and Internet in 
> return for member access to the compute and storage of the six servers.

I'd be opposed to 57North paying for the electricity for this. It'll be in the ball park of all our income⁰. As much as I'd like to play with a compute cluster I don't think it's worth (possibly more than) all of the space's money. 

Robert

⁰ Accounts for last year¹ give us ~£3k income and ~£2k surplus, membership graph definitely looks like we'd be down from that now.² 

¹ https://github.com/hackerdeen/meetings/tree/master/2021

² https://hub.57north.org.uk/api/membership/graph
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