Re: minutes for call about new testing hardware

On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 3:34 PM, Bjoern Michaelsen
<bjoern.michaelsen@canonical.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 08:57:21PM +0100, Christian Lohmaier wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 8:30 PM, Jean-Baptiste Faure
> > <jbfaure@libreoffice.org> wrote:
> > > Le 28/10/2014 17:13, Markus Mohrhard a écrit :
> > > [...]
> > > > ** real hardware
> > > > *** about 800€ for a 64 core, 256GB memory machine (Florian)
> > >
> > > 800€ only, really?
> >
> > monthly cost in case that wasn't clear :-)
> >
> > https://www.manitu.de/root-server/pro/root-server-pro-qs/ (set memory
> > to 256GB and add some of the storage disks)
>
> Sooo, thats:
>
>  9600 EUR/pa
>
> compared to:
>
>  (365*24 hours)*0.417USD/hour+5216USD = 8868.92 USD = 6719 EUR/pa max.

1/ this price is without VAT ( add 19% :
http://aws.amazon.com/tax-help/european-union/ )
2/ no storage ??? add 1.2$ per GB per year... to compare apple to
apple the other machine has 4TB. so that would be $4800 + VAT more on
aws
3/ no bandwidth ? aws price for bandwidth OUT, to the internet is
$0.12 a GB above 1GB per month. the other box come with 20TB per month
included. at aws2 price that is $25200 per year + VAT

And you joined the call, you knew that we have considered and weighted
these options, and concluded that a 'base' capacity in the form of 1
manitu instance, and a reserve for overflow and/or punctual need to
get properly sized (read small) machine of aws2 as the need arise was
the best way to proceed, or for process amenable to it, using spot
instances.

Norbert