alt Hacker NewsI never questioned or thought twice about F-Droid's trustworthiness until I read that. It makes it sound like a very amateurish operation.
I had passively assumed something like this would be a Cloud VM + DB + buckets. The "hardware upgrade" they are talking about would have been a couple clicks to change the VM type, a total nothingburger. Now I can only imagine a janky setup in some random (to me) guy's closet.
In any case, I'm more curious to know exactly what kind hardware is required for F-Droid, they didn't mention any specifics about CPU, Memory, Storage etc.
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> It makes it sound like a very amateurish operation.
Wait until you find out how every major Linux distributions and software that powers the internet is maintained. It is all a wildly under-funded shit show, and yet we do it anyway because letting the corpos run it all is even worse.
For a single server why would you use cloud services rather than go the self-owned route?