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(Disclaimer: I'm a cofounder at Ubicloud.) Hey there, we offer Ubicloud Runners that are 10x cheaper than GitHub and bill them by the minute. You get a fresh V

by ozgune 3y ago

(Disclaimer: I'm a cofounder at Ubicloud.) Hey there, we offer Ubicloud Runners that are 10x cheaper than GitHub and bill them by the minute. You get a fresh VM with each job; and we use Hetzner as our underlying provider. If you're already setting up a Hetzner box, I'd love to get your input. Any thoughts or feedback for us? https://www.ubicloud.com/use-cases/github-actions https://www.ubicloud.com/use-cases/github-actions https://github.com/ubicloud/ubicloud/blob/main/routes/web/webhook/github.rb https://github.com/ubicloud/ubicloud/blob/main/routes/web/we... (our github actions integration is also openly available)

moltar 3y ago
Does it address my main issue of cache sharing? If cache is still over the network, then it's not optimal, as it's the bottleneck for everything. E.g. our node_modules is 3 GB, and once you gzip and gunzip it takes minutes. With pnpm cache store we can reduce this to seconds.
- xjia 3y ago
  If you are interested in persistent cache, maybe take a look at https://dime.run https://dime.run
moltar 3y ago
Pricing is better than GH but still not competitive. We use BuildJet now and it's $0.008/min for 4 vCPU and 16 GB, while your offer is 0.16¢/min for the same (20x more expensive).
- ozgune 3y ago
  I think you're confusing the unit in our pricing. We charge 0.16¢/min for 4 vCPU and 16 GB, which is $0.0016/min. That's 5x cheaper than BuildJet's pricing. We didn't quote our prices in $ because the number of trailing zeros confused people. Maybe still go ahead and switch back to that?
  - cocoflunchy 3y ago
    The industry standard is $/min, so yes I think you should stick to it. And emphasize that it's 10x less than github actions pricing (most competitors are 2x cheaper instead)
  - moltar 3y ago
    Ah you are right. A agree with other commenters that it’s confusing compared to industry standard.
- cocoflunchy 3y ago
  Ubicloud is using c/min which makes it harder to compare... Buildjet is 0.8c/min and Ubicloud is 0.16c/min which is 5x cheaper.
hipadev23 3y ago
Building a business on hetzner is a hell of a bold move.

by ozgune 3y ago

moltar 3y ago

Does it address my main issue of cache sharing? If cache is still over the network, then it's not optimal, as it's the bottleneck for everything. E.g. our node_modules is 3 GB, and once you gzip and gunzip it takes minutes. With pnpm cache store we can reduce this to seconds.

xjia 3y ago
If you are interested in persistent cache, maybe take a look at https://dime.run https://dime.run

moltar 3y ago

Pricing is better than GH but still not competitive. We use BuildJet now and it's $0.008/min for 4 vCPU and 16 GB, while your offer is 0.16¢/min for the same (20x more expensive).

ozgune 3y ago
I think you're confusing the unit in our pricing. We charge 0.16¢/min for 4 vCPU and 16 GB, which is $0.0016/min. That's 5x cheaper than BuildJet's pricing. We didn't quote our prices in $ because the number of trailing zeros confused people. Maybe still go ahead and switch back to that?
- cocoflunchy 3y ago
  The industry standard is $/min, so yes I think you should stick to it. And emphasize that it's 10x less than github actions pricing (most competitors are 2x cheaper instead)
- moltar 3y ago
  Ah you are right. A agree with other commenters that it’s confusing compared to industry standard.
cocoflunchy 3y ago
Ubicloud is using c/min which makes it harder to compare... Buildjet is 0.8c/min and Ubicloud is 0.16c/min which is 5x cheaper.

hipadev23 3y ago

Building a business on hetzner is a hell of a bold move.