From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 25 02:59:18 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 77C636AF for ; Wed, 25 Jun 2014 02:59:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ipmail06.adl6.internode.on.net (ipmail06.adl6.internode.on.net [150.101.137.145]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 105F72D7D for ; Wed, 25 Jun 2014 02:59:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ppp118-210-37-37.lns20.adl2.internode.on.net (HELO leader.local) ([118.210.37.37]) by ipmail06.adl6.internode.on.net with ESMTP; 25 Jun 2014 12:24:04 +0930 Message-ID: <53AA39CA.3050206@ShaneWare.Biz> Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 12:24:02 +0930 From: Shane Ambler User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: tyler@tysdomain.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: server funding References: <53A994C7.7080308@tysdomain.com> <53A9B684.4050703@gmail.com> <53A9B8A0.7030801@tysdomain.com> In-Reply-To: <53A9B8A0.7030801@tysdomain.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 02:59:18 -0000 On 25/06/2014 03:12, Littlefield, Tyler wrote: > On 6/24/2014 1:33 PM, Jungle Boogie wrote: >>> to this end, I am looking for: >>> 1) A grant, fund or similar that would allow me to purchase 1 >>> (possibly 2) >>> servers that could be used for this task. They don't have to be >>> incredibly >>> high end servers, but I do foresee a lot of compilation happening, so >>> something with the processing power to sustain that would be great. >>> 2) A company or individual who has something extra they wouldn't mind >>> putting >>> up for the cause; I would greatly appreciate that as well. >> Where would you put the servers and how would they get internet >> access? Or do >> you mean you want someone to donate 2 servers, some power, and some >> internet? >> > One server would be plenty, but yes. Someone who has a spare rack server > available could probably do something like this and just donate > colo+hardware. > Thanks all for the time, > >> Best of luck! Have you considered the cloud? You can start an AWS account and use 750 hours a month for 12 months of a micro instance (that's 1-CPU) to get everything up and running. Once it's running and you get people using it you move to bigger machine and pay monthly for it. As you expand you start your server with bigger resource allocations or start multiple instances. You can find FreeBSD images for AWS at http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-on-ec2/