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This.... I bet arXiv was run on server hardware costing under $10k before... And now it'll end up costing $10k per month (with free credit from Google which w

This.... I bet arXiv was run on server hardware costing under $10k before... And now it'll end up costing $10k per month (with free credit from Google which will eventually go away and then arXiv will shut down or be forced to go commercial)

falcor84 2y ago
I assume they would still have the serving code they use now and if they do choose to go back to maintaining it on their own hardware they'll always have that option. It seems they just don't want that anymore.
- gapan 2y ago
  That will be several years down the line, when everything has bit-rotten to death and nobody in the team remembers how the old setup worked.
- londons_explore 2y ago
  That's why they're being encouraged to use cloud run and all the other cloud functionality so a migration back becomes very hard.
perihelions 2y ago
arXiv budgets about $88,000/year for server costs as of 2019, (pdf) https://info.arxiv.org/about/reports/arXiv_CY19_midyear.pdf https://info.arxiv.org/about/reports/arXiv_CY19_midyear.pdf
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