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Hocus is more cost-efficient when you need larger instances. If you need 8 CPU cores ($0.72/hour on Codespaces) and a single dev uses their IDE for 4 hours a da
by hugodutka 4y ago
Hocus is more cost-efficient when you need larger instances. If you need 8 CPU cores ($0.72/hour on Codespaces) and a single dev uses their IDE for 4 hours a day on average, Codespaces itself would come out to about $0.72 * 4 * 5 * 4 * 30 = $1728 a month. But that gives me the idea that maybe we should introduce cheaper pricing plans but with limits on VM resources - pay less if you have lower compute requirements.
- inhumantsar 4y agoMaybe I'm confused here, but wouldn't I still be paying instance costs on top of your per-seat license? 256 cores would be about $2.50 to $5/hr in AWS depending on reservations and how much you're able to oversubscribe. That's another $1,500 to $3,000/mo on top of your $1,170/mo. If you're paying for the compute then cool, that's a good price. If this is self-hosted though then I can't really see why I would bother unless I had no choice but to self host and cobbling together a simpler if less ideal solution isn't allowed.