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by tough3 hours ago |
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upvoteby hirako20003 hours ago|
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Because you don't have to wait for weeks just for delivery. And you pay for elastic usage.
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upvoteby vidarh2 hours ago|
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You can order bare metal servers delivery time in minutes from any number of hosting providers and the cost difference is so huge you can afford to keep excess capacity and still come out ahead.
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upvoteby tough2 hours ago|
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I run the CI infra for our company, and our bare metal costs (sans my salary baked in), are one order of magnitude less than if using any other CI saas provider like github or others.

Like literally 10x times more expensive to do so, to run CI jobs...

I dont want to imagine the margin AWS has like generally, cause it can easily be a 90% too

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upvoteby microgpt1 hours ago|
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Right? It's actually crazy how much they don't cost. Are you using it more than 10%? If so, you're saving money.

I assume you're using your owned server and not a provider like Hetzner? So you did have a substantial delivery time. Although in my city is a recycled that resells used servers, and I could show up there with a truck and get a server within hours if I'm not too picky. Or use some random desktop or laptop off the pile, short-term.

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upvoteby tough1 hours ago|
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No we're on hetzner/ovh boxes, so delivery time really isnt an issue.

Right now the biggest issue is the vibe coded CI program is not really meant to be a distributed multi-node thing yet, so we're on the biggest machines (there's some newer bigger stuff we could migrate too) and the only issue is on peak hours queue can get a bit slow.. but that was also some other bugs etc making not ideal.

Tbh it works pretty well, we just need now to scale it to more than one node etc (which is not to say that is easy, but still, x10 headroom to work with)

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