Re: A Follow Up to My Original Note Re The Future of Boost

From: Louis Tatta (louis_at_[hidden])
Date: 2024-08-03 01:42:21

On Fri, Aug 2, 2024 at 5:22 PM Vinnie Falco via Boost
<boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> The Services cost about $13,000 a year to run

 Hi, Louis here. I manage the operations at the C++ Alliance. I’m
writing to provide more details on the costs for hosting the new
website.

This is a snapshot of the costs for the month of June for all the
services running boost.io:

Google Cloud Platform
$580     Kubernetes Engine
$357     Compute Engine (Databases)
$100     Compute Engine (mailman3 servers)
$116     Cloud Memorystore for Redis
$40       Networking
$3         Artifact Registry
$3         Cloud Storage

Other
$50       Amazon S3 Buckets
$60       Fastly Website Caching
$35       Mailgun service

$1,344  Total for June

To summarize, the annual projected cost for hosting the new Boost
website is $16,128 per year.

The board has tasked me with implementing a fundraising plan to
achieve financial sustainability for the Boost Software Commons, to
replace the loss of Foundation conference revenue and to ensure that
Boost is not dependent on Vinnie’s donations for its infrastructure.
To this end I have created a Patreon account. Donations are disabled
for now, until the Boost Software Commons establishes the
infrastructure to receive payments.

https://patreon.com/boostorg

Thank you,
Louis Tatta
The C++ Alliance