Autotester farm is down

[Brad Roberts via Digitalmars-d]

On 8/17/16 4:47 PM, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On 8/17/2016 4:13 PM, Brad Roberts via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> 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.
>
> For the ones in house, I wonder if it would be cost effective to replace them with ones that draw
> less power. For example, Win7 laptops can be picked up at the pawn shop for about $150. Put an SSD
> drive in them, max out the ram, turn off the display, and run them. Of course, they'll be slow, but
> that may not matter if 2 or 3 running in parallel can replace a single power hungry machine.

More slow machines would increase throughput, but would also hurt latency.  Both are important, for 
different reasons.  MOST of the equipment is old hardware, so newer machines would also tend to be 
faster.  I'd be willing to accept donations of any i5 or better hardware (maybe i3, reluctantly). 
Even better would be for me to just get shell access to machines that someone else hosts.  It 
doesn't need to all be centralized in my house.