Opportunity to support Strawberry Perl
First of all I would like to thank AuditSquare.com for sponsoring our project Strawberry Perl during the last 12 months.
The sponsorship comprised of providing the following VPS as our build machine:
- 3 CPU / 8 GB RAM / 120 GB HDD
- OS license - Windows 2012 Datac EN
- remote access: RDP + KVM
- unlimited Internet connectivity
Unfortunately arranged sponsorship period is over and we are looking for another sponsor willing to provide our project with similarly sized VPS (current provider charges approx. 600 USD per 1 Year).
For further information you can contact me via e-mail at kmx@cpan.org.
EDIT: some answers which might be interesting:
- the VPS in question is not hosting strawberryperl.com website
- it is used for building strawberry perl binaries (which means gcc, ext. libs, perl core + extra modules) - each release comprise of 10 packages (see 5.20.0 at http://strawberryperl.com/releases.html)
- in spare time it runs 2 CPAN smokers (latest strawberry perl 32+64bit versions) - currently no. 10 (but it is not the main goal)
- the sponsor gets in exchange: 1/ ad banner at our homepage + 2/ notice in every release announcement
- strawberryperl.com web traffic (according to Google Analytics): Monday-Friday approx. 1300 user sessions per day (approx. 600 for weekend
days) - there are approx. 18000 downloads per month
- AuditSquare's ad attracted in average 2 clicks per day
I blog about Perl.
how flexible are the above requirements?
Of course they are flexible, the minimum is something like 3 CPU / 4 GB RAM / 80 GB HDD + whathever 64bit Windows operating system (VPS mostly come with DataCenter edition due to licensing reasons). RDP access is a must. As for internet connectivity by "unlimited" I mean no limits with outgoing connections "to the internet" for incoming traffic we need only RDP + KVM (usually VNC-based), data volume in "high season" might be in tens of GB per month.