Thank you to everyone who has donated in February. I appreciate your support. Last February, GhostBSD accumulated 1186.77 CAD. 436.04 CAD was from Patreon, and 722.30 CAD was from donations through PayPal.
So far this year, the total is 2345.11. There is 24654.89 left to accomplish our goal of 27000 CAD.
Expenses
Infrastructure Costs
- Storj: 78.68 CAD - package distribution
- So You Start: 152.93 CAD - website server, Paris dedicated servers, and 6 IPs for jails
- OVH: 292.17 CAD - ISO and packages builder
Major Infrastructure Investment
In February, we brought a server to my house to build GhostBSD. This new server reduces the time required for a complete package repository build to under 36 hours, compared to the OVH server, which took 4 days.
- Dell PowerEdge R640 Server: 5321.05 CAD
- Dell PowerEdge R640 - 10x 2.5" 1U SFF Server + U.2 NVME Options
- SKU: r640_10bay-2x8160-512gb-ddr4-16x32GB-10xCaddy-hba330-2x10GBEth-2x1GB-4xenable-rails-90day
- 2x Intel Platinum 8160 2.1Ghz (48 Cores)
- 512GB DDR4 ECC RAM (16x 32GB)
- 10x Caddies
- HBA 330 (vSAN recommended)
- 2x 10GB Ethernet and 2x 1GB Ethernet Ports
- 8x U.2 NVME Bays Enabled (No drives)
- Sliding Rack Rails.
- Electrical work: 320.00 CAD
- SSD 3.84TB U.2 2.5 NVMe PCIe 3.0 Gen3: 426.37 CAD
- Amazon Basics RJ45 Cat-6 Ethernet Patch Internet Cable - 10 Feet: 12.55 CAD
- StarTech.com 6ft (1.8m) Computer Power Cord: 39.08 CAD
- CyberPower CPS1220RMS Surge Protector Rackmount: 187.81 CAD
- StarTech 25U Server Rack (4POSTRACK25U): 459.99 CAD
Regular Monthly Expenses: 523.78 CAD Major Infrastructure Investment: 6766.85 CAD Total Expenses: 7290.63 CAD
Contributors/Sponsors
See the Donors List: https://www.ghostbsd.org/donors
See the Patron List: https://www.ghostbsd.org/about/patreon
Thank you all for your support and donations. It helps to maintain the project infrastructure to build and deliver GhostBSD.
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