[briancurtin]

> In the past, RubyGems was hosted on dedicated hardware within Rackspace. While this was certainly cheaper, it created administrative issues. Granted those can be solved without using AWS, but we get back to again desiring to have as low of friction on the administration as possible.

If Rackspace can be of assistance in the future, feel free to reach out ([e-mail]). We currently donate hosting to many open source projects, including ones in a similar space, like the Python Package Index.

[evanphx]

Thanks! I'll bring it up with the team.

[koide]

Note that if you can get Rackspace or whomever to donate the hardware/bandwidth, you can use less than 7k/month to hire a very competent admin to solve the administrative issues, which would probably lead to better service for everybody.

[dr_ick]

On that note, you might check out the Open Source Lab at Oregon State University. They host many projects: http://osuosl.org/communities