What it costs to run Drupal's infrastructure

What It Costs to Run Let's Encrypt

Today we’d like to explain what it costs to run Let’s Encrypt. We’re doing this because we strive to be a transparent organization, we want people to have some context for their contributions to the project, and because it’s interesting. Let’s Encrypt will require about $2.9M USD to operate in 2017. We believe this is an incredible value for a secure and reliable service that is capable of issuing certificates globally, to every server on the Web free of charge.

Open Source infrastructure deserves a business model

Open Source infrastructure is essential, invisible, and chronically underfunded. A more sustainable approach may be to connect the cost of running that infrastructure to the organizations that rely on it most.

Why We Can’t Figure Out Why Infrastructure Is So Expensive

And why it’s going to be so expensive to find an answer.

Founders Startup Program

For the youngest projects and startups. Participants will have up to €1,000 cloud credits to use over one year on our multi-cloud products.

Front-End Salaries · Front-end Developer Handbook 2017

The national average in the U.S for a mid-level front-end developer is around $75k. Of course when you first start expect to enter the field at around 35k depending upon location and portfolio.

How much are open-source developers really worth? Hundreds of billions of dollars, say economists

A new report finds that open-source technologies have huge potential, but it is still largely untapped.

Netlify, a service for quickly rolling out static websites, raises $2.1M | TechCrunch

Mathias Biilmann — a former CTO of a firm that built websites for small businesses — says developers have gotten so used to using Github as a central

Pricing

Flexible pricing tiers for developers: Free tier with 50 credits, Pro at $20/month, Pro+ at $40/month, and Power at $200/month.

We need to talk about the lack of investment in digital research infrastructure

Research software infrastructure is critical for accelerating science, and yet, these digital public goods are often unsustainably funded. Solving this problem requires an appreciation of the intrinsic value of research software outputs, and greater investment of time and effort into effectively funding maintenance of software at scale.

Who sponsors Drupal development? (2015-2016 edition)

An in-depth analysis of how Drupal's development was sponsored between July 1, 2015 and June 30, 2016.