crowd funding time (again)

I have started the campaign draft at https://www.indiegogo.com/campaigns/keep-poddery-com-live-round-2/edit (let me know if you want to help with indiegogo campaign and I'll add you to the team)

We just have 25 days, 13 hours left in our account. @manukrishnantv did we receive the remaining amount from KnightSwarm yet? Can you ask them to credit it so we can refill gandi.net.

@praveenarimbrathod I am very much occupied these days. Have talked with @anisha over phone regarding that. I have initiated a ticket sometime back and they said they can't buy Gandi credits for us, but transfer the amount to an alternate paypal account.

Someone needs to follow up on that. Meanwhile, if I remember correctly, we have some funds from the last crowdfunding campain with SMC too.

Check this: https://blog.scaleway.com/2016/03/08/c2-insanely-affordable-x64-servers/

Its a French company. I am currently running my personal servers with them. Really reliable.

@praveenarimbrathod @manukrishnantv @fayadfami

@anisha this seems 1/5th of gandi.net offer after 40% discount!! They are out of stock and needs an invite. Can you get a server if you have an account already?

I already have account and ability to spawn servers.

@manukrishnantv I have opened a ticket with KnightSwarm to credit it to @sruthi 's paypal account. We already used the amount left with SMC for last purchase with gandi.net

How about an online meet up to work on the indiegogo campaign? I suggest tomorrow night 9pm. Scaleway hosting won't start before April. I have registered with them.

Scaleway uses SoC (Server on Chip), which is new. There is no benchmark on performance yet. Being a busy pod with a heavy database, we need to test whether the CPU can handle the load, before making a decision.

Also, network being capped at 200Mbps, we need to do a speed test too. Presently at Gandi and earlier with Knightswarm, we were on a shared gigabit port.

There are more options coming in and the cost will go down in the future for sure.

@manukrishnantv They already credited to Joe Schraube's account. I have contacted him to buy us gandi.net credits.

@anisha can you spawn x86-64 machines? I think we should try 8GB plan.

We have only 16 days 22 hours left in our account. I have contacted Joe Schraube about the refund but yet to get a response. Can someone extend it for a month so we can do the crowd funding in peace? I paid last time, any volunteers to advance this time? @anisha @manukrishnantv @fayadfami

@anisha shared access to cloud.scaleway.com and I created test.poddery.com. It is up and running with a live diaspora instance (diaspora-installer package in action, pod up and running withing minutes)! Please test and report how it is compared to poddery.com If you want to get inside the server and look, contact me or anish with your ssh keys.

I did a small basic performance test (not perfect) with @mintojoseph and these are the readings

test.poddery.com (Scaleway) Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU  C2550  @ 2.40GHz (4 core)

1. Writing on the encrypted partition

dd if=/dev/zero of=testminto348 bs=1024K count=50
50+0 records in
50+0 records out
52428800 bytes (52 MB) copied, 0.0870859 s, 602 MB/s

2. Reading from the encrypted partition
dd if=testminto348 of=/dev/null 
102400+0 records in
102400+0 records out
52428800 bytes (52 MB) copied, 0.0768041 s, 683 MB/s

3. cpu test

 dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=1024K count=1000
1000+0 records in
1000+0 records out
1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 0.191027 s, 5.5 GB/s

poddery.com (Gandi) Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2650 v2 @ 2.60GHz (6 core)

1. Writing on the encrypted partition

dd if=/dev/zero of=testminto348 bs=1024K count=50
50+0 records in
50+0 records out
52428800 bytes (52 MB) copied, 0.0571185 s, 918 MB/s

2. Reading from the encrypted partition

dd if=testminto348 of=/dev/null
102400+0 records in
102400+0 records out
52428800 bytes (52 MB) copied, 0.0803882 s, 652 MB/s

3. cpu test

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=1024K count=1000
1000+0 records in
1000+0 records out
1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 0.0767364 s, 13.7 GB/s

@manukrishnantv I have found a Geekbench result for this server spec http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench3/5704243

for C2M (8 core , 16gb ram) http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench3/5730531

I have created a tracker for server migration https://git.fosscommunity.in/community/poddery.com/issues/2 @manukrishnantv @fayadfami @balasankarchelamat @anisha

poddery.com is now running on scaleway C2S machine. @balasankarchelamat @fayadfami @manukrishnantv @anisha please test and see everything is fine. Looks like web chat is not working. Can some one check? Gotta sleep now.

gandi.net server is shutdown and credit usage is dwon from 1210/h to 190/h (for disk and ip). I will remove the remaining resources after 2 or 3 days.

@anisha can you come up with a revised estimate for 2 years cost of hosting?

For the Indiegogo campaign I can make the "Facebook Share Image", and maybe design a Poddery logo if you like. I can make some mock-ups so you can decide which one you prefer...

@jakobnorregard yes, that would be great. Go ahead and share them here/on diaspora.

I have taken some hour to make 6 suggestions. This is only rough drawings, so considering the idea instead of the aesthetics is preferable. You can look at it first and then maybe we could put it up on Diaspora and let people vote or something. It would be a way of creating some attention. Please ask if you have any questions.

My favourite is no. 1 with the Zulu ceramic beer-jar as it is most grassrootish.

@jakobnorregard I like 1 and 3.

Campaign launched https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/keep-poddery-com-live-round-2–2#/ now spread the word.

The indiegogo url gives an invalid page saying project is unavailable or could be moved.

Edit. works now.

Received 534.44 USD (34,899.95 INR) from indiegogo.com