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Yes and no. If I'm paying $5 a month for storage, I probably don't care about saving 5% of my storage costs. If I'm paying $50,000/month in storage costs, 5% sa
by michaelmior 2y ago
Yes and no. If I'm paying $5 a month for storage, I probably don't care about saving 5% of my storage costs. If I'm paying $50,000/month in storage costs, 5% savings is a lot more worthwhile to pursue
- PaulHoule 2y agoDoesn't npm belong to Microsoft? It must be hosted in Azure which they own so they must be paying a rock bottom rate for storage, bandwidth, everything.
- cwmma 2y agoIt's probably less about MS and more about the people downloading the packages
- PaulHoule 2y agoFor them it is 5% of something tiny.
- sneak 2y agoThe amount of modules my docker hosts download from npm is anything but tiny.
- imoverclocked 2y agoMaybe, maybe not. If you are on a bandwidth limited connection and you have a bunch of NPM packages to install, 5% of an hour is a few minutes saved. It's likely more than that because long-transfers often need to be restarted.
- PaulHoule 2y agoA properly working cache and download manager that supports resume goes a long way. I could never get Docker to work on my ADSL when it was 2 Mbps (FTTN got it up to 20) though it was fine in the Montreal office which had gigabit.