[LEDE-DEV] trying to cover costs on my bit of the build cluster

[Dave Taht]

The total cost of running a lede "compute engine standard N1 16" from
Jun 1-Jun 30 was $560.77. The openwrt (N4) one cost 220.

I could try to look at the builds per $ over that month so as to
provide a better comparison to other cloud services.

total donations from the https://www.gofundme.com/2awkswc link: $365
(one time only)

I personally commit $250/mo.

So presently I plan to discontinue the openwrt builder aug 1, and
request that the lede box be scaled back by then, if no other funding
sources arrive.

An issue I have with "scaling down" this box is that it will merely
"run longer", as the utilization since jun 15th has not been full.
Running a massive box for short bursts makes more sense...

...


Compute Engine Network Internet Egress

from EMEA to Americas

Compute Engine Network Internet Egress

from EMEA to EMEA

Compute Engine Standard Intel N1 16

VCPU running in EMEA

Compute Engine Storage PD Capacity Jun 1 - Jun 30 lede-builder
1999.985 Gibibyte-
months

Compute Engine Sustained Usage

Jun 1 - Jun 30 lede-builder 89.989 Mebibytes 0.01

Jun 1 - Jun 30 lede-builder 310.369 Gibibytes 37.24

Jun 1 - Jun 30 lede-builder 720 Hours 633.60

80.00

Jun 1 - Jun 30 lede-builder -190.08


On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 7:25 PM, Dave Taht <dave.taht at gmail.com> wrote:
> I just put up a gofundme link to cover the costs of the 16 cpu google
> cloud buildbot machine I donated to lede last month, here:
>
> https://www.gofundme.com/2awkswc
>
> It's looking like $ 500-600 a month (in addition to the 250/mo I
> already put into the openwrt builder).
>
> 800/mo is WAY more than I can sustain personally past august 1, so I
> will be forced to make hard choices then, without some way to cover
> these expanded costs.
>
> From what I can see the new build cluster for lede is *wildly* successful,
>
> ( http://phase2.builds.lede-project.org/tgrid )
>
> It is very easy and possibly desirable to continue using bits of the
> google compute cloud to continue, or expand this - or there may be
> better alternatives... but, regardless, I'll have to shut down or cut
> back something by aug 1st without some help here.
>
> --
> Dave Täht
> Let's go make home routers and wifi faster! With better software!
> http://blog.cerowrt.org



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Dave Täht
Let's go make home routers and wifi faster! With better software!
http://blog.cerowrt.org