Hi Jan,
On Fri, 28 Feb 2020 at 10:09, Jan Engelhardt jengelh@inai.de wrote:
On Friday 2020-02-28 08:59, Daniel Stone wrote:
I believe that in January, we had $2082 of network cost (almost entirely egress; ingress is basically free) and $1750 of cloud-storage cost (almost all of which was download). That's based on 16TB of cloud-storage (CI artifacts, container images, file uploads, Git LFS) egress and 17.9TB of other egress (the web service itself, repo activity). Projecting that out [×12 for a year] gives us roughly $45k of network activity alone,
I had come to a similar conclusion a few years back: It is not very economic to run ephemereal buildroots (and anything like it) between two (or more) "significant locations" of which one end is located in a Large Cloud datacenter like EC2/AWS/etc.
As for such usecases, me and my surrounding peers have used (other) offerings where there is 50 TB free network/month, and yes that may have entailed doing more adminning than elsewhere - but an admin appreciates $2000 a lot more than a corporation, too.
Yes, absolutely. For context, our storage & network costs have increased >10x in the past 12 months (~$320 Jan 2019), >3x in the past 6 months (~$1350 July 2019), and ~2x in the past 3 months (~$2000 Oct 2019).
I do now (personally) think that it's crossed the point at which it would be worthwhile paying an admin to solve the problems that cloud services currently solve for us - which wasn't true before. Such an admin could also deal with things like our SMTP delivery failure rate, which in the past year has spiked over 50% (see previous email), demand for new services such as Discourse which will enable user support without either a) users having to subscribe to a mailing list, or b) bug trackers being cluttered up with user requests and other non-bugs, etc.
Cheers, Daniel