costs

Costs:

Current costs:

https://opencollective.com/metacpan-core/expenses for details

• Kubernetes cluster ( 4 nodes + postgres service ) - $260 USD / PM
  • Digital Ocean https://cloud.digitalocean.com/ in discussion about their OS program
  • Currently hosting front end of MetaCPAN, https://perl5.test-smoke.org/ and a few small redirect sites.
• AWS backups of ElasticSearch cluster - $25 USD / PM (will move to BackBlaze.com soon)

Ongoing donated services:

• Fastly CDN (fast, world wide delivery and edge caching)
• ElasticSearch cluster, recently donated by ElasticSearch, MetaCPAN is migrating the MetaCPAN API to this
• Fastmail email hosting

Expected future costs:

• Disk space at Digital Ocean - 500G (for current ~300G BackPAN Mirror) - $50 USD/PM
• Postgres backups - Backblaze storage - $12 USD/PM
• Increase of Kubernetes cluster size as the MetaCPAN API is migrated and other services are added, $ unknown.

Donated services not considered long term reliable (currently used for the API and BackPAN):

• Bytemark bare metal servers
• LiquidWeb bare metal servers