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Fri 5 Feb 2016 5:57AM

crowd funding time (again)

PP Pirate Praveen Public Seen by 596

Folks, its time we start crowd funding campaign so we can continue running poddery.com for the next year and forward. Since myself, Manu and Fayad has been taking care of the technical tasks, I would really like someone else to lead the crowd funding effort.

MKT

Manu Krishnan T V Mon 14 Mar 2016 7:23AM

Scaleway uses SoC (Server on Chip), which is new. There is no benchmark on performance yet. Being a busy pod with a heavy database, we need to test whether the CPU can handle the load, before making a decision.

Also, network being capped at 200Mbps, we need to do a speed test too. Presently at Gandi and earlier with Knightswarm, we were on a shared gigabit port.

There are more options coming in and the cost will go down in the future for sure.

PP

Pirate Praveen Mon 14 Mar 2016 2:10PM

@manukrishnantv They already credited to Joe Schraube's account. I have contacted him to buy us gandi.net credits.

PP

Pirate Praveen Fri 18 Mar 2016 9:03AM

@anisha can you spawn x86-64 machines? I think we should try 8GB plan.

PP

Pirate Praveen Sat 19 Mar 2016 6:10AM

We have only 16 days 22 hours left in our account. I have contacted Joe Schraube about the refund but yet to get a response. Can someone extend it for a month so we can do the crowd funding in peace? I paid last time, any volunteers to advance this time? @anisha @manukrishnantv @fayadfami

PP

Pirate Praveen Sat 19 Mar 2016 12:20PM

@anisha shared access to cloud.scaleway.com and I created test.poddery.com. It is up and running with a live diaspora instance (diaspora-installer package in action, pod up and running withing minutes)! Please test and report how it is compared to poddery.com If you want to get inside the server and look, contact me or anish with your ssh keys.

PP

Poll Created Mon 21 Mar 2016 8:30AM

Switch to scaleway.com hosting Closed Thu 24 Mar 2016 7:37AM

Since we have backup available, a small down time should be enough.

  1. Move to 4 core 8 gb server and see for a few days
  2. If we feel its not performing, move to 8 core 16 gb server
  3. Switch back to gandi.net as last resort.

Results

Results Option % of points Voters
Agree 100.0% 3 PP AS BC
Abstain 0.0% 0  
Disagree 0.0% 0  
Block 0.0% 0  
Undecided 0% 38 S MK J NV P AKS RD S MKT NAJ PS AA SAJ AR S JS JB P J MJ

3 of 41 people have participated (7%)

PP

Pirate Praveen
Agree
Mon 21 Mar 2016 8:31AM

It reduces cost to a large extend, but we have to test performance.

AS

Anish Sheela
Agree
Wed 23 Mar 2016 8:52PM

Yes. Its perfect.

AS

Anish Sheela
Agree
Wed 23 Mar 2016 8:54PM

Yes. Its perfect. I am using it for around an year and it works really well. We can move to it after benchmarks.

PP

Pirate Praveen Tue 22 Mar 2016 3:25PM

I did a small basic performance test (not perfect) with @mintojoseph and these are the readings

test.poddery.com (Scaleway) Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU  C2550  @ 2.40GHz (4 core)

1. Writing on the encrypted partition

dd if=/dev/zero of=testminto348 bs=1024K count=50
50+0 records in
50+0 records out
52428800 bytes (52 MB) copied, 0.0870859 s, 602 MB/s

2. Reading from the encrypted partition
dd if=testminto348 of=/dev/null 
102400+0 records in
102400+0 records out
52428800 bytes (52 MB) copied, 0.0768041 s, 683 MB/s

3. cpu test

 dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=1024K count=1000
1000+0 records in
1000+0 records out
1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 0.191027 s, 5.5 GB/s

poddery.com (Gandi) Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2650 v2 @ 2.60GHz (6 core)

1. Writing on the encrypted partition

dd if=/dev/zero of=testminto348 bs=1024K count=50
50+0 records in
50+0 records out
52428800 bytes (52 MB) copied, 0.0571185 s, 918 MB/s

2. Reading from the encrypted partition

dd if=testminto348 of=/dev/null
102400+0 records in
102400+0 records out
52428800 bytes (52 MB) copied, 0.0803882 s, 652 MB/s

3. cpu test

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=1024K count=1000
1000+0 records in
1000+0 records out
1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 0.0767364 s, 13.7 GB/s
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