Let xbbs provision cloud VMs

[avdgrinten]

This could reduce hosting costs and it is general nice to not waste compute power.

[ArsenArsen]

a worker that provisions vms on demand (and cleans them on a timeout) should suffice

[Geertiebear]

How would this idea work considering we use a lot of donated compute?

[ArsenArsen]

well at the time the answer was terraform talking to hetzner.. today, given the death of HashiCorp, I don't know

[Geertiebear]

I mean technically I can imagine how it would work, the question was more focused on how do we integrate it with the current scheme of donated compute.

[ArsenArsen]

hmm, IIRC the idea was to have an upper bound of workers detached from the number of workers present in the network, and to allow moments at which the number of queued jobs is (significantly?) greater than the number of available workers to cause more workers to be spun up

but this probably matters less with the current sizable server fleet