I discussed both with Dbart and Serg last week about the situation with buildbot. Kristian and Elena also had similar discussion on IRC today.

To sum it up, there seems to be two aspects to it; 1) more machines, i.e. slaves could/should be added immediately and 2) some development work could/should be done on buildbot to support some other ways of building, like automatically spinning up and down platform specific virtual machines in a public cloud somewhere whenever they are needed.

I looked into alternatives for the 1) immediate need of more machines and thought. I found a pretty interesting alternative from OVH.COM, who offers dedicated servers to a very reasonable price. Here is a good example of what they can offer: https://www.ovh.com/us/dedicated-servers/infra/2014-EG-32.xml . I would be prepared to give it a try. Do you think the specs are good enough to help with the load buildbot currently has?

BR,

Rasmus