Proposal: Infrastructure - Datacenter (January)

[Ryan Taylor]

This is a cross-post from www.dashcentral.org/p/infra-datacnt-201701

This proposal is to fund our ongoing infrastructure costs. Ongoing costs are outlined below which includes changes which were described in detail in September's infrastructure funding request.

Cloud infrastructure costs:
$260 per month for AWS and Google services and administration
Roles:
- Route53 DNS zone management
- EC2 web server instances
- S3 for web server instances
- Backups and auditing
- Gmail for domains
- VPS for integrations support

Hosted Compile Server:
$150 per month for co-location and replacement parts for our Bamboo compile server

Cloudflare Business plan:
$200 per month
- Hosting of dash.org and all services hosted under that domain
- DDOS protection
- Web optimization services
- Real time statistics

Requested funding is as follows for the January 4th budget cycle:

• 62.72 Dash for infrastructure costs ($610 USD @ $9.725 per Dash based on December 18th average rate at https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/price-dash.html)
• 5.00 Dash reimbursement for the proposal cost

Total: 67.72 Dash

Note: Should any funding remain, we will apply those funds toward future infrastructure funding needs

Manually vote YES on this proposal:
dash-cli mnbudget vote-many b271ca7a4d9625366445a4323341e936764e2827bccbaa7b202275071cdca88c yes
OR from the qt console:
mnbudget vote-many b271ca7a4d9625366445a4323341e936764e2827bccbaa7b202275071cdca88c yes

Manually vote NO on this proposal:
dash-cli mnbudget vote-many b271ca7a4d9625366445a4323341e936764e2827bccbaa7b202275071cdca88c no
OR from the qt console:
mnbudget vote-many b271ca7a4d9625366445a4323341e936764e2827bccbaa7b202275071cdca88c no