In August of 2016, we had some discussions on IRC about the value of HCoop getting out of the hardware business and running our services on virtual machines from an infrastructure-as-a-service provider. JackHill offered to evaluate options from a cost perspective, and this page is a place to gather those considerations. There are, or course, other considerations in addition to cost, and those belong here too.

== Cost ==

=== Current Needs ===

Our current needs based on the [[Hardware]] page:

 * '''Storage''': 2TiB. In AFS we are currently using 44% of 870GiB available space. 2TiB will give us enough space to accommodate our current storage needs with enough headroom to grow, local storage on machines, and working space for backups.

 * '''Servers'''
   * '''Web''': 6GiB RAM, 6 CPU
   * '''Login''': 3GiB RAM, 4 CPU
   * '''Mail''': 2GiB RAM, 4 CPU
   * '''Infra''' ''(AFS, KRB5)'': 4GiB, 2 CPU
   * '''Misc''': 2GiB, 2 CPU
 * '''Network''': current usage unknown

Our current cost per month at Peer1 is $680.

=== auro.io ===

[[https://auro.io/|Auro]] is a Canadian OpenStack provider

 * '''Servers'''
  * 1 x 2 GiB, 2 CPU
  * 2 x 4 GiB, 2 CPU
  * 1 x 4 GiB, 4 CPU
  * 1 x 8 GiB, 4 CPU

 * '''Storage'''
  * 2TiB in addition to what is included with servers

 * '''Network''' is currently free.

The above would come to $514/month