A pool operator has to take care of a server. Hosting, securing it, DNS/domain names, certificates and all kinds of sysadmin stuff. That is not required for NuBot which runs on a standard Windows or Ubuntu installation out of the box.
That’s why I can justifiy the initial high fee, setting up the NuBot as they did successfully during last term. Ongoing there is way less maintenance than running a pool I can assure you from my own experience.
Meh, ive experienced it too and im unconvinced that running nubot is any easier than running pybot. Setting up the server is initial costs, i havent touched dns stuff in 6 months (and nubot also has to be secure lest someone take control of the api keys and custodial address). The biggest thing for pool operator is checking up on it when it goes down. Zoro is going to check up on his bot twice a day, which is of comparable work to checking up on the pybot script as an operator.
Well a little bit off-topic but required to underline my position the work I’m doing to run PyBot server. Just to name a few key differences:
Re security:
I can run NuBot (and PyBot) on any PC, laptop, tablet and Raspberry Pi without all the above costs and effort.
Logs are definately still a nubot thing. Server + backups is like $25/month. Domain name is like $1/month (not sure what a certificate is). Cloudflare isn’t necessary if we’re considering a barebones alp operation, like one on hitbtc or cryptsy that isnt expected to have a huge number of participants. Then again, the cryptsy pool was run with a 30 nbt operator fee.
With certificates I’m referring to PKI certificates. These prevent man-in-the-middle attacks by uniquely identifying servers. I’m using them for communications with Cloudflare. Cloudflare is a protection against denial-of-service attacks. It anonymises/changes the IP of the site. My experience is that these are minimal services are required to run public sites on the internet. Our own forum and website are also secured with these type of measures, nothing extraordinary.
So maybe we do agree that the fee is too high? 
Not sure how well this meshes.
It looks reasonable.
The “two times per day” is an understatement actually 
As long as i am working online i am able to check nubot, thus the “one time” could be 4-8 hours straight.
Nubot proves to be very stable under windows (although java needs 1GB ram and 100% of 1 core’s cpu time)
Thus i am not expecting the QoS to be lower. I just wanted to make a less stressful for me and a more cheaper proposal for NU.
Moreover, nubot gateways are the best assets we have to defend the peg and this comes with a cost. ALP and MLP prove to be ineffective in dire situations in Poloniex although their operators do a great job, ALP users have their own “agenta”.
I am always in a constant effort to evaluate gateways. (work in progress)
In the future i am expecting a “fixed cost” proposal by FLOT for nubot gateways. 
I finally got the hash from assistant and have updated the original post accordingly.
Please have a look at this as well:
I suppose i need to vote for a custodial grant here, right?
EDIT: voted.
Right
There’s not really need for a custodial grant at the moment.
You can continue to use “BJs4YbtaqCmxeHLiR6zzjnZEotYVFAPfMo” to broadcast liquidity (it will stay valid for some time as it was granted roughly 1 month ago) and the payment for your services (supposing the motion passes) can be done by FLOT.
You are right. Then you suggest to change the proposal to a motion with ee20086eb56a8a7b0f722227086b05de9941a293
as voting address?
Is already available as hash for the motion.
If you want to make sure that people vote for what you want them to vote, make it clear what this voting is about, e.g. by removing the custodial grant address.
After suggestion by MoD, i changed the grant with a motion
Please vote this proposal as a motion with below hash:
ee20086eb56a8a7b0f722227086b05de9941a293
@cryptog
you may replace BET6WJctWyC6wpRfE9ytrVDHJSb8duG1kE
with above hash as motion vote.
Polo being intensive for Nu, to me it looks reasonable too.
Will add this to my feed
sorry for the delay, voted.
I still see some voters continue to vote with the old grant address:
BET6WJctWyC6wpRfE9ytrVDHJSb8duG1kE
instead of the new motion address:
ee20086eb56a8a7b0f722227086b05de9941a293
Please, replace your grant vote with the motion
All votes are transferred in the motion now.
But i don’t see much momentum in voting.
The nubot gateway will continue to operate until the end of the month. If the motion is not passed
i will have to respect the voters’ decision and seize operation (returning all funds back to FLOT).
@Nagalim, please fix your nubot asap