alt Hacker NewsSelf-hosting on a host whose data actually persists is an even better experience, as it removes a lot of the tedium and workarounds such as extracting/down-/up-loading caches and so on. Get another host for redundancy and call it a day.
Hardware is getting cheaper and cheaper, but the fear-mongering around running a Linux machine has successfully prevented most businesses from reaping those cost reductions.
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> Hardware is getting cheaper and cheaper
Unfortunately not anymore and not in the foreseen future if we don't see some AI investment corrections.
Complete persistence has its downsides, as you can start getting "path dependency". E.g. a build succeeds only because some images were pre-cached by a previous build.
But having an _option_ to not download everything every time is great. You can add a periodic cache flushing, after all.
I repurposed old M1/M4 Mac Mini's at my workplace into GitHub action runners. Works like a charm, and made our workflows simpler and faster. Persisting the working directory between runs was a big performance boost.