Convincing hosting companies to support Nix/Nixos

Is there any existing effort in the community to convince hosting companies to support Nix/Nixos?

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@mightyiam @imincik @mat and me are working on a pitch to sponsors these days, currently for a different particular topic. It may be worthwhile exchanging thoughts on the general issue.

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Sorry: what I meant here was: convincing hosting companies to support the installation and usage of nixos as an option on their systems. (although I am all for also convincing hosting companies to sponsor nix/nixos foundation as well :slight_smile: )

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Maybe an incentive would be that they get listed somewhere on the nixos.org? I guess we already do so (AWS,…) but maybe we can formalize this and invite others to do so. Just thinking out laud.

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https://nixos.wiki/wiki/NixOS_friendly_hosters

I don’t think anybody’s keeping it up to date though

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We could migrate that to nix.dev or a repo in nix-community and find a couple of people to keep an eye on it, link it nicely. Essentially anyone who runs NixOS on their VPS will be interested in having a list handy just in case.

Please don’t delete it from the wiki! By all means link to it though.