alt Hacker NewsNo. It is not worth a time-scaled cost each month for them to start a job on my machines and store a few megabytes of log files.
I'd happily pay a fixed monthly fee for this service, as I already do for GitHub.
The problem here is that this is like a grocery store charging me money for every bag I bring to bag my own groceries.
> But at $140 a month, how much time is that worth investing?
It's not $140/month. It's $140/month today, when my company is still relatively small and it's just me. This cost will scale as my company scales, in a way that is completely bonkers.
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> It is not worth a time-scaled cost each month for them to start a job on my machines and store a few megabytes of log files
If it is so easy why don’t you write your own orchestrator to run jobs on the hardware you own?
> The problem here is that this is like a grocery store charging me money for every bag I bring to bag my own groceries.
This is an odd take because you're completely discounting the value of the orchestration. In your grocery store analogy, who's the orchestrator? It isn't you.
> The problem here is that this is like a grocery store charging me money for every bag I bring to bag my own groceries.
Maybe they can market it as the Github Actions corkage fee