On Sun, 7 Feb 2010, Caroline Meeks wrote: > Did Amazon say no to donating the service? Actually, it was Red Hat who was considering donating the service -- but we're still working out details. :) --g > On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 7:36 AM, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org> wrote: > Amazon just lowered all prices, do I did some some cost > estimates for > the hypothesis of running the bulk of Sugar Labs' public-facing > and > development infrastructure on EC2. > > In 9 days, the machine running http://activities.sugarlabs.org/ > along > with a bunch of other low-traffic services received 85.8GB and > sent > 103.3GB of data, for a total of 189GB transferred. > > In one year, this would become 189/9*365 = 7665GB (7.6TB). > > However, these statistics were collected in a period of > extraordinarily > low traffic, because schools are closed in Latin America: > > ?http://sunjammer.sugarlabs.org/munin/sugarlabs.org/sunjammer.sugarlabs.org > -apache_accesses.html > > Within two weeks, traffic will return from 150 to 800-1000 > connections > per minute, a factor 6. Our traffic includes a number of things, > such as > backups, which won't grow as much. But we're also expecting the > popularity of aslo to increase over the next year, so I'd keep > the 6x > factor: > > ?76665GB * 6 = 45990GB (46TB per year) > > We're well within the 10TB per month range. So we can expect to > spend: > > ?45990 * 0.15 = $6898.50 > > This is just for bandwidth. Amazon also charges for instance > hours > (circa $2000 per year per instance), disk space and IP > addresses. This > is the whole story: > > ?http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/#pricing > > Depending how fast one instance really is, I'd guesstimate that > running > a good chunk of Sugar Labs' development and public-facing > infrastructure > on EC2 instances would cost some $10-15K per year. Moving > everything to > the cloud would likely cost over $20K per year at current rates. > > -- > ? // Bernie Innocenti - http://codewiz.org/ > ?\X/ ?Sugar Labs ? ? ? - http://sugarlabs.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > Systems mailing list > Systems at lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/systems > > > > > -- > Caroline Meeks > Solution Grove > Caroline at SolutionGrove.com > > 617-500-3488 - Office > 505-213-3268 - Fax > > -- Educational materials should be high-quality, collaborative, and free. Visit http://opensource.com/education and join the conversation.
