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@ntnsndr OK to turn up a VPS in digital ocean and incur some additional cost? I'm general, could the [[twg]] get an experiment allowance? Happy to write a proposal but I'd rather go for a dynamic setup up to a threshold (e.g. 50 monthly, although this will be much less) instead of having to write them all the time :)

@edsu @protean @Matt_Noyes FYI

@flancian @ntnsndr @edsu @protean This should go to the TWG first then to a vote of the membership.

@Matt_Noyes @flancian @edsu @protean really?

This is why we should move to fixed discretionary budgets for WGs. They should not need to get membership votes for reasonable expenses like this.
Would it be temporary or permanent?

@ntnsndr @Matt_Noyes @edsu @protean it can be temporary until a vote is called if necessary, although getting a second server would highly improve our mean time to recovery for many catastrophic scenarios.

@ntnsndr @Matt_Noyes @edsu @protean but the idea is to be able to use automation to make it easy+fast to bring up servers from scratch, and now that protean is back we have a better shot at getting there; so we could turn it down / have it in standby as needed if the coop runs into financial trouble.

@ntnsndr @Matt_Noyes @edsu @protean thank you!

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