[vidarh]

It would be nice if people questioning what he's paid would ask questions first, before making claims about what he should be doing...

> Well, the article does a terrible job at explaining why that rack is needed and why it can't be in a datacenter in the same city as the NTPd maintainer.

For starters, the majority of the servers are currently hosted for free at isc.org. You'd save a tiny amount on his monthly travel (I don't know what his costs are, but I used to stay in Palo Alto for weeks at a time in my last job, and it should be doable for him to travel to, and stay in, San Jose for a week for <$1k/month), in return for a as much or more in hosting costs unless you can find someone willing to give him free space.

That's assuming you can find a nearby suitable data centre.

> I wonder what prevents that hardware from working from, say, a desk in the house of the maintainer

Nothing. If you're willing to fund sufficient low latency, high capacity, redundant internet connections to his house. The price would almost certainly be far higher than flying him to San Jose once a month to maintain the servers there.

[moe]

If you're willing to fund sufficient low latency, high capacity, redundant internet connections to his house

What for?

Does he run public timeservers himself?