Phil Endecott via Boost
Louis Tatta wrote:
Server Hosting $23,000 [per quarter]
That's a lot of money.
Indeed. For perspective, for $7K/month you could rent about 45 Xeon Gold 24-core servers on Hetzner. So over 1000 cores of compute or about 7 dedicated cores per Boost library. Imagine the CI system you could build from that. (I appreciate that managing those 45 servers will cost something, potentially even more than the servers themselves. Still, for something like CI which doesn't have strict reliability/availability requirements, a lot of this management cost can be pushed upfront and made fixed.)
It's really none of my business how you spend your money, [...]
I had a related question for while now so while at it, let me ask it: Where does this money come from and how long will it last? I looked around the C++ Alliance website for the answer but all I could find was that "The Alliance is currently funded by a private endowment". Are you (as in, Boost developers) not concerned where this non-trivial amounts of money come from? Equally important, are you not concerned about what happens if/when it runs out? For example, there seem to be multiple, full-time developers working on the new Boost website. Based on that I think it's reasonable to assume that the result will require a non-trivial amount of ongoing maintenance. What happens when/if there is no more funding for this maintenance? Are the Boost developers prepared to step in and do web development? I realize am asking pointed questions while not really being part of the project (other than packaging Boost for build2), so if the answer is "this is none of your business", then that's fair enough.