Quoting David Fifield (2024-11-12 21:01:31)
In the web configurator interface, the cost of a VPS at the current specs used by the Snowflake broker (20 GiB disk, 32 GiB RAM, 8 CPU cores) is 185.80 EUR.
mmm, it looks like they might start charging us next year.
One option we could consider is running it in TPA infrastructure. I checked with them and they could provide that size of machine but will want to know more of the traffic we produce.
But the question will be more if we want to do that. As a policy TPO doesn't run relays or bridges, but we do run the bridge distribution (rdsys). The snowflake broker is more similar to rdsys than to a bridge as it only distributes proxies, but it sees all user connections while rdsys only sees bridge requests when users need to change them. I'm not sure we want to move more services that people depend on into TPO.
Another difference with TPA is that we'll not get root on the server, but a user to run our services with systemd. TPA takes care of server upgrades and we maintain the service updated and running.
We could find money to pay for the service either in elips.is or somewhere else and maintain it separated from TPO.
Let's talk about this during our next thursday meeting.