[FFmpeg-devel] ffbox0 server hosting

[Clément Bœsch]

On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 11:12:40AM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 07:32:01PM +0200, Clément Bœsch wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > As stated in previous meeting¹ I'd like to stop paying for ffbox0. This is
> > not exactly an issue today for me, but I feel like it could be avoided.
> > There was a need for a fast solution a while ago, but it's now long past
> > that time (it was about one year ago), and I'd like to be discharged from
> > this.
> > 
> > So on 19th October 2016 (3 months from now), I will close the ffbox0
> > subscription.
> > 
> > Note that this is not only a money problem, it comes with a hosting
> > responsibility I'd like to get rid of; I'm thinking notably about the
> > abuse complaints I got wrt rtmpdump (because yes, this box is not only for
> > the FFmpeg project, but also all kind of other projects I have absolutely
> > 0 interest in funding, hosting and taking responsibility for myself).
> 
> raz (and me but really raz did 99% of the work) has moved things from
> ffbox0 to ffbox0-bg.
> 

Thank you very much to you and Nikolay.

> About monthly ffbox0 fees, if you want them refunded please submit
> a refund request to the ffmpeg-devel ML (see similar ones on the ML
> about refunding of travell costs). All refund requests should be easy
> search, detect and discussable on the ML ...
> 

It's about 50€/months, for one year. I'm fine with that, I don't need a
refund. Thank you.

> If you wish to shutdown ffbox0 in 3 months, would you have time to
> go over the other free server & hosting offers we had? It would make
> sense for us probably to keep the number of servers we have available
> non decreasing so we can move things "easily" in case future need
> arises ...

I haven't followed at all the different offers, I don't feel like poking
random people, sorry.

> Thanks alot for providing ffbox0 to FFmpeg, MPlayer, rtmpdump, ...
> when it was needed

Sure, you're welcome

-- 
Clément B.
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