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There's more details 2 messages later on what the cost is for: > Some clarification I got from Daniel in a private conversation, since I was confused about wha

There's more details 2 messages later on what the cost is for: > Some clarification I got from Daniel in a private conversation, since I was confused about what the money was paying for exactly: > We're paying 75K USD for the bandwidth to transfer data from the GitLab cloud instance. i.e., for viewing the https site, for cloning/updating git repos, and for downloading CI artifacts/images to the testing machines (AFAIU). And more details on their infrastructure in general is at https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Infrastructure/ https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Infrastructure/ gitlab.freedesktop.org is hosted in GCE us-east1. One runner for CI jobs is also in us-east1, but there are also (donated) runners at Hetzner and Packet, and a lot of bandwidth goes toward communicating with those. Apparently even if they disabled CI, it would still be $30K/year, I guess for hosting and web/git traffic. Not a good situation.

Symbiote 7y ago
> All the other services are run on a small fleet of machines hosted at Portland State University. Would the university host the GitLab instance? (Or a VM for it, or whatever.) The bandwidth cost to them should be very small. I run infrastructure hosted at a university, and they change around $500/year for a 10Gb/s uplink. I think this is just the cost price for them.
Slartie 7y ago
This is laughable. Just renting another box at Hetzner with the specs necessary for their Gitlab would be around $100-$150 per month. That is maybe 1-2k per year. With 10tb/month traffic included already, IIRC, additional at a very reasonable price, and traffic to their already existing Hetzner runner box being non-metered to begin with. But woooh, that's probably not cloudey enough.