> Check back in three years once you've had to deal with... This being routine engineering, I can tell you right now how it will go. Let's start! > OS upgrade

> Check back in three years once you've had to deal with... This being routine engineering, I can tell you right now how it will go. Let's start! > OS upgrades Distinction needed: update/upgrade. Entirely automatable, some may say table stakes. Decide to update in this job or another. Upgrades are a common problem for either hosting world. Can my software work in this new environment? Hence, CI. > power outages Set the firmware to return to last power state. Also buy a couple UPS' and a PDU. Fixed. A host and networks between going away isn't so easy. > Running out of disk space How is this unique for them to solve? Hosted workers/cloud servers have finite disks too. Clean your workspaces in your pipelines. That's all disposing of the hosted one does. > and one of them failing. Someone else in the thread said it best, these are CI runners man. Capacity is down slightly. Oh no. Several cheap copies were bought to address this. The marketing was so successful that we have to debate that yes, there is value in owning things you need/use.