Infrastructure Independence

Historically, the Haskell community has relied on a mix of cloud providers and self-hosted servers for our core infrastructure (Hackage, Stackage, GHC, CI, etc.). More recently the Haskell Infrastructure team has completed a migration of many of its web services away from Equinix Metal, so a mix of variety of hosting solutions, you can read more details about that here: https://discourse.haskell.org/t/haskell-infrastructure-migration-update/11989

ARM CI has always been a bit trickier to organize, mostly due to the relative dearth of options for ARM infrastructure. Microsoft’s Azure platform has provided us with a generous number of credits as part of their Open Source program. Unfortunately, Microsoft has decided to phase out this offering to open source communities, requiring us to seek alternative solutions for ARM CI.

As with the other infrastructure migrations, we have choices about how to proceed. The current ‘first choice’ for the infrastructure team is to purchase our own ARM server (an AmpereOne A128-34X) and host it at the co-location facility with many of our other web services.

Any remaining funds after the cost of the server will go to purchasing additional storage for backups and hardware to improve redundancy.

This fundraising campaign will help improve the Haskell community's infrastructure footing. Thanks for your help!