ICEBOX Audit usage of R shiny Server to determine what payment plan and budget projections

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ICEBOX Audit usage of R shiny Server to determine what payment plan and budget projections #2915

Open ghost opened 1 year ago

ghost commented 1 year ago

Breaking off final remaining tasks from #crossref #2712

We need to renew our R shiny server subscription.

Ours expired so we are currently on the free version which:

Only allows 5 applications and 25 active hour per month.
Does not allow shiny server authentication through users' GitHub accounts.
- We may want this feature to scale the app as teh current free authentication workflow requires David N to create and send login credentials to new users.
- The app used to authenticate through GitHub and this matches documentation in the TeamPSD manual).

Requirements

[ ] Determine projected usage of R shiny Server
[ ] Determine which R shiny subscription to choose.

Below are the subscription plans for shiny .

hthrmarsh commented 1 year ago

@epearman thanks for making this card. Do you have an idea of who might need to use this? I'm not sure I understand R Shiny Server enough to identify this, but happy to touch base about it today.

ghost commented 1 year ago

@dkngenda @hthrmarsh @lzim @emilymetcalf114

[ ] Estimates of the user base
- [ ] How many active hours did we use in our busiest month?
[ ] Do we anticipate heaver traffic on the authorship app in the upcoming year as we restart the flow of our manuscript pipeline?

dkngenda commented 1 year ago

I'd recommend the standard plan. It gives us 2000 hours per month and can host unlimited number of applications. For context, if we had 30 users, each user would have at least 65 hrs/month to use any of our apps. This is also the same plan we were on previously.

hthrmarsh commented 1 year ago

@pearman Can you put the link in here to the plans. Sorry, I googled it and I'm not sure I'm looking at the right thing. I'm wondering if there's a penalty for switching plans, for example, could we start with the basic and if needed, switch to the standard?

hthrmarsh commented 1 year ago

@lzim is this a priority? I'm not sure. If so, I can work on it wk4 2023_jun_epic.

dkngenda commented 1 year ago

@lzim @lijenn

I just saw that this subscription issue has come up again and was wondering if we could refer to it. Below is my prior recommendation on which subscription plan to go with.

I'd recommend the standard plan. It gives us 2000 hours per month and can host unlimited number of applications. For context, if we had 30 users, each user would have at least 65 hrs/month to use any of our apps which I is sufficient. This is also the same plan we were on previously.

Thanks

lzim commented 1 year ago

Discussed at team_time wk5 2023_aug_epic @lzim @dkngenda @claradismuke

[x] Checked R Studio for updates in the TRMS: https://www.oit.va.gov/Services/TRM/ToolPage.aspx?tid=6656#
[x] @lzim checked and was using R 4.2.1 (2022-06-23 ucrt) -- "Funny-Looking Kid" and R Studio 2022.02.3 Build 492
[x] @dkngenda checked and was using R 4.2.1 (2022-06-23 ucrt) -- "Funny-Looking Kid" and R Studio 2022.07.1 Build 552

dkngenda commented 1 year ago

@lzim

In researching more about Posit Connect vs shinyapps.io, I found this blog quite informative.

Looks like to run posit connect, we would have to purchase a server behind VA firewall and install it. It does provide more features and functionalities than shinyapps.io server which just hosts shinyapps. However, for our authorship app, I'd still lean on using the shinyapps.io servers as that would allow users outside VA firewall to use it. To me, it makes sense to have Posit connect be an enterprise wide investment (just like power) rather than just for our lab.