costs

Costs:

Current costs:

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

• Kubernetes cluster ( 4 nodes + postgres service ) - Digital Ocean https://cloud.digitalocean.com/ - $260 usd for Aug 2024
  • Currently hosting front end of MetaCPAN, https://perl5.test-smoke.org/ and a few small redirect sites.
• AWS backups of ElasticSearch cluster - $25 pm (will move to BackBlaze.com soon)

Donated services:

• Fastly CDN (fast, world wide delivery and edge caching)
• ElasticSearch cluster, recently donated by ElasticSearch, we are migrating the MetaCPAN API to this
• Bytemark bare metal servers
• LiquidWeb bare metal servers
• Fastmail email hosting

Expected future costs:

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