tag:help.appveyor.com,2012-11-13:/discussions/questions/524-pricing-for-foss-projectsAppVeyor: Discussion 2018-10-19T08:16:45Ztag:help.appveyor.com,2012-11-13:Comment/346638612014-09-22T17:34:32Z2014-09-22T17:34:32ZPricing for FOSS projects<div><p>Right now we are working on a "premium" build environment
running on dedicated Hyper-V machines. When it's ready I'll notify
you so you can test and see if it's something worth paying money
for :)</p></div>Feodor Fitsnertag:help.appveyor.com,2012-11-13:Comment/346638612014-09-24T02:41:47Z2014-09-24T02:41:47ZPricing for FOSS projects<div><p>Thank you for the heads up.</p>
<p>I noticed I accidentally set this to "private". If it's not an
issue with anyone on AppVeyor, this can be made a public topic.</p></div>SLtag:help.appveyor.com,2012-11-13:Comment/346638612014-10-14T04:39:59Z2014-10-14T04:39:59ZPricing for FOSS projects<div><p>The new environment is ready for testing. Let me know if you
want to give it a try. On average, it should speedup your builds by
3-5 times, depending on project. Also, builds leave queue almost
immediately.</p>
<p>We are planning to dedicate this new environment to paid
customers. OSS projects will stay on Azure (as currently) and will
continue to be free. However, we are going to offer 50% discount on
paid plans to OSS and students to let everyone enjoy super fast
builds.</p></div>Feodor Fitsnertag:help.appveyor.com,2012-11-13:Comment/346638612014-10-14T12:02:03Z2014-10-14T12:02:03ZPricing for FOSS projects<div><p>Out of interest, since your comment suggests it, what are you
using now, if not Azure?</p></div>gep13tag:help.appveyor.com,2012-11-13:Comment/346638612014-10-14T13:58:10Z2014-10-14T13:58:10ZPricing for FOSS projects<div><p>It's Azure. This is what I wanted to say. Or does it sound
differently? :)</p></div>Feodor Fitsnertag:help.appveyor.com,2012-11-13:Comment/346638612014-10-14T14:03:14Z2014-10-14T14:03:14ZPricing for FOSS projects<div><p>This part:</p>
<p><code>OSS projects will stay on Azure (as currently) and will
continue to be free.</code></p>
<p>Made me think that OSS projects would continue to be hosted on
Azure, while paid subscriptions would be moved to some other
host.</p>
<p>Not a problem though, happy to here that you are staying on same
infrastructure. Guessing you are using the new SSD hard drives for
paid subscriptions? If so, very cool! :-)</p></div>gep13tag:help.appveyor.com,2012-11-13:Comment/346638612014-10-14T18:06:52Z2014-10-14T18:06:52ZPricing for FOSS projects<div><p>Oh, you were right in the first place. Paid subscriptions will
be moved to a dedicated server environment which is based on
Hyper-V. Open-source projects will stay on Azure.</p>
<p>We tried new D1 instances, but the fun with them is that SSD is
a temp drive D: which you supposedly can use for very narrow
scenarios such as temp cache for SQL Server or Mongo (<a href=
"http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2014/09/22/new-d-series-virtual-machine-sizes/">http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2014/09/22/new-d-series-virtual-mac...</a>).
OS partition is still a page blob. Sadly, D-instances give little
or no performance gain to AppVeyor even if you place repo clone
folder on that SSD drive. Moreover, they are pricey - D1 price is
twice higher than A1.</p>
<p>On the other hand, dedicated environment based on Hyper-V has
faster CPUs, all-SSD drives and 1 GB network connection which gives
on average 3-5 times faster builds.</p></div>Feodor Fitsnertag:help.appveyor.com,2012-11-13:Comment/346638612014-10-14T18:34:25Z2014-10-14T18:34:25ZPricing for FOSS projects<div><p>Sweet!</p>
<p>Really glad to hear that things are progressing in this area,
AppVeyor really is a tremendous system, can't say enough good
things about it!</p></div>gep13