Re: hosting lua.org

[Petite Abeille <petite.abeille@...>]

> On Aug 31, 2023, at 00:57, John Belmonte <john@neggie.net> wrote:
> 
> About site requirements, it needs at least Linux shared hosting (preferably Debian or Ubuntu).  Storage need is about 10GB currently, and compute need is small-to-negligible.
> 
> Assuming lua.org doesn't find a solution suitable for lua-users to ride on, we're looking separately for a free hosting commitment for at least 7 years out.  If you think you may be able to host the site, please email me directly.
> 

Those are very frugal requirements :)

Taking DigitalOcean [01] as an example — a humble VM with the OS of your choice is $4 per month (512MB RAM/1 vCPU/10 GB SSD/500 GB transfer).   

Rounding that up to $10 per month over 7 years give us a sticker price of $840 — at current price.

Say $1K for the next 10 years — all things being equal (PPP & All).

Assuming the lua-l community could raise such a small amount of $ today, and setup such lightweight infrastructure now — who would look after the "aged yet reliable software stack" and other administrative trivias?


[01] https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/droplets