Oct 24, 2025#
Attendees:
Seema, Nabil Freij, Benjamin Leff
Observers:
Claudia Alvarado, Addo Davies Jr., Nicole Foster, Kari Hall
Apologies:
Irfan Alibay, Seth Mridul, Arliss Collins, Andy Terrel
Agenda#
Previous Action Items - Benchmarking with AstroPy
Over utilization of Resources for wpengine.com
Welcome new member
Other stuff?
Notes#
Benchmarking with AstroPy - Before committing to funding, projects would like a detailed cost estimate and a proof of concept demonstrating the application’s capabilities and expected performance (running a ASV benchmark on a project in an EC2 server). - Since projects will be financially responsible for their usage, we need to determine a fair and transparent monthly billing model that accounts for factors such as server usage and resource consumption. - Need to get a cost estimate for a simple EC2 instant.
EC2 cost calculator would get us about 85% of the way.
Budget questions around does the committee still have the money it asked for last year?
Over utilization of Resources for wpengine.com - Addo with WP Engine Support. - The exact day for when the bandwidth spike occurred was September 25th. The day I switch our plan from annually to monthly. - The following IPs are causing the high bandwidth:
136.143.177.51 with nginx and php log types
136.143.177.50 with nginx and php log types
136.143.176.51 with nginx and php log types
74.242.242.134 have not yet found any logs for this.
Addo went ahead and blocked these IPs.
The numFOCUS website is moving to a new platform and backend system.
Arlis is the one to ask about signing software stuff for projects. - She has been tagged on the issue, hopefully we can take this forward with the projects.
Try to get our contact on the TSC to join, timezones are a big problem.
Make sure all committee members are signed up to vote.
Action items#
Upload meeting notes to repo Nabil Freij
Create Detailed Cost Estimate for Benchmarking Application Addo Davies Jr.
Create an issue template for ACCESS to help Alex manage on numfocus/infrastructure