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We overprovisioned the hardware a lot as we really didn't want to hit any hardware limits. In practice, I think this meant there were 16 medium sized EC2 insta
by Arathorn 6y ago
We overprovisioned the hardware a lot as we really didn't want to hit any hardware limits. In practice, I think this meant there were 16 medium sized EC2 instances for the various Synapse processes; RDS for DB; 6x largish boxes in Upcloud for Jitsis, and ~70 machines in the automatic scaling group for the Jibris. I'm guessing peak bandwidth was about 100Mbps but obviously all the bulk HTTP (HLS etc) was behind CDNs.
- rakoo 6y agoDo you believe such a model is viable for any future conferences ? Does it need a lot of money and/or system administrators to run compared to the number of participants ?
- Arathorn 6y agoIt's definitely viable. I'm waiting to see what the bill was for the hardware costs, but I'm expecting it'll be a few $K. We had a lot of sysadmin on hand to try to keep it happy over the weekend though (but having learnt from the misadventures, subsequent events should be much easier).
- znpy 6y agoNice! Can you share about how much did it cost to host the conference then, even approximately? I wonder if your stack can become a pattern to host large-ish to large conferences on-line!