Autotester farm is down

[Brad Roberts via Digitalmars-d]

On 8/17/16 3:27 PM, wobbles via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Monday, 15 August 2016 at 22:33:26 UTC, Brad Roberts wrote:
>> Network connectivity issues.  That set of machines runs out of my house and the comcast connection
>> isn't happy, apparently.
>>
>> On 8/15/16 12:55 PM, Lodovico Giaretta via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>>> I don't know much about PRs and the autotester, so I'm probably wrong, but...
>>> It looks like [1] the autotester farm is down: most hosts have been unreachable for more than two
>>> hours and a half, as of this writing.
>>>
>>> This may slow down the PRs, as all FreeBSD and all Windows hosts are gone.
>>>
>>> Is it known and expected (maybe maintainance)?
>>>
>>> [1] https://auto-tester.puremagic.com/hosts/
>
> I wonder how much it would cost to host this in AWS?
> I imagine it wouldn't be that big a job (famous last words)... plus - I'm sure you don't want to be
> paying for power and internet bandwidth for it forever either.
>
> Now that we have the foundation - this should all be fundable (hell, I'm sure most of us here
> wouldn't mind donating if it took that!)

Several of the machines are run out of aws.  The cost of running a windows instance inside aws is 
pretty awful.  Shrug.. it's a wash, for the most part.