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1. hollow-moe · 1790024032 · focus · HN ↗

   I wonder if the GitHub actions outages we keep seeing is due to themselves making self-hosted runners paid, hence bringing broke/cheap users back from hosted runners to their garbage infra.Meanwhile I'm running my Codeberg Actions on the free Oracle ARM machine 2 cores 12GB ram (previously 4 cores 24GB) and way more reliable. Keep winning bozos.

   Edit: After second thought, I guess "alternative runner" providers still have to pay the self-hosted tax. So M$ actually saves and makes money by not scaling their infra and driving people to alternative providers they can tax freely. Actual geniuses.

   1. watermelon0 · 1790028112 · focus · HN ↗

      They abandoned (or at least postponed) the idea of charging for self-hosted runners usage.

      Actions management plane is the most problematic part of the platform (in regards to scale), so they are basically losing money with self-hosted runners.

      Scaling of VMs shouldn't be a problem, since that is practically stateless, whereas there are lots of operations performed for every job/workflow.

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