Case Study: Open Source Project Hosts Community Infrastructure on Hostxpeed for Free

Introduction

The OpenDocs project (documentation platform) needed reliable hosting for their community infrastructure. Hostxpeed provided free VPS through its Open Source Sponsorship Program.

The Sponsorship

Hostxpeed sponsors eligible open source projects with free NVME-4 VPS (up to $99.99 value). OpenDocs applied and received 3 VPS: one for wiki (MkDocs), one for GitLab CI runners, one for package repository (APT).

Infrastructure Migration

Previously on DigitalOcean (cost $800/month). Migration took 2 weeks: used rsync for data, reconfigured CI pipelines to use Hostxpeed runners.

Results

CI pipeline speed improved 3x (NVMe vs DigitalOcean SSD). Wiki uptime 99.99% over 6 months. Package repository serves 500,000 downloads/month with zero cost to project.

Community Impact

Saved $9,600 annually, which they redirected to developer grants. Hostxpeed support helped troubleshoot kernel parameters for high‑I/O workloads.

Conclusion

OpenDocs recommends Hostxpeed to any open source project. Sponsorship application takes 15 minutes.