Terra Rebels is pleased to have recently announced the successful deployment of our Rebel Station Infrastructure Cluster into full production, fully completing the work that was outlined in our previous spend proposal. In addition to the work outlined in that spend proposal we have also included the deployment of the Rebel Finder and Rebel Agora services.
The purpose of this spend proposal is to ensure that the infrastructure can now be operated, maintained and supported in a sustainable manner. This spend proposal covers the following items:
- Ongoing running costs (hosting, power, and internet) for the cluster
- Technical support and maintenance of the cluster hardware and software
- Helpdesk support via dedicated forums at https://forums.terrarebels.net
The cluster technical support team consists of the following people who will operate in a support rotation to ensure 24/7 coverage of support and maintenance for the cluster:
- Echel0n (team lead)
- BeeJee
- Raider70
The cluster technical support team monthly duties will be as follows but not limited to:
- Maintenance of our Kubernetes GitOps repo
- Monitoring of our Kubernetes cluster resources
- Monitoring and maintenance of Terra Classic LCD nodes and resource usage
- Monitoring and maintenance of Terra Classic FCD nodes and resource usage
- Monitoring and maintenance of Terra Classic RPC nodes and resource usage
- Monitoring and maintenance of Terra Classic API nodes and resource usage
- Monitoring and maintenance of Terra Classic seed nodes and resource usage
- Monitoring and maintenance of server hardware
- Monitoring and maintenance of firewall hardware
- Monitoring and maintenance of network hardware
- Monitoring and maintenance of Rebel Station
- Monitoring and maintenance of Rebel Station Extension
- Monitoring and maintenance of Rebel Finder
- Monitoring of Kubernetes cluster backups
- Monitoring of S3 cluster storage
- Monitoring of DNS services
- Monitoring of Prometheus alerts
- Monitoring of email alerts
- Backup maintenance of FCD PostgreSQL database and configs
- Backup maintenance of API PostgreSQL database and configs
- Backup maintenance of LCD configs and data
- Backup maintenance of RPC configs and data
- Backup maintenance of S3 storage
The cost of 3 months running costs and ongoing support is USD 37,593 (to be paid in LUNC from the community pool at the prevailing exchange rate at the time of the submission of the spend proposal). The costs are broken down as follows:
- Running Costs: USD 7,593 (USD 2,531 per month)
- Wages: USD 30,000 (USD 10,000 per month)
The cluster support team monthly wages of USD 10,000 are broken down as follows:
- Echel0n: USD 4,000 ($16.60 per hour, 240 hours per month, 30 days a month)
- BeeJee: USD 3,000 ($12.50 per hour, 240 hours per month, 30 days a month)
- Raider70: USD 3,000 ($12.50 per hour, 240 hours per month, 30 days a month)
We will submit similar future running cost spend proposals (prices may be adjusted) every three months.
We urge the community to vote for this proposal to ensure the ongoing reliable operation of the TR infrastructure, and the Rebel Station wallet (and associated applications).
Furthermore, we recently underwent a stress-test of our infrastructure as requested by Allnodes, this test comprised of TFL cutting over all LCD, FCD, RPC, and API blockchain traffic for Luna Classic to Terra Rebels infrastructure for a period of no less than 24hrs, this test was completed successfully and has proved the capabilities and stability of Terra Rebel’s infrastructure.
V1 proposal link: Terra Rebels Infrastructure Operations and Maintenance
Signed by:
Raider70, echel0n, BeeJee
