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This is a serious issue. How is it possible for GitHub/Microsoft to charge me for using my own machine as a self-hosted GitHub Actions runner?
by r2vcap 10mo ago
This is a serious issue. How is it possible for GitHub/Microsoft to charge me for using my own machine as a self-hosted GitHub Actions runner?
- handfuloflight 10mo agoThey still have to manage state between their servers and yours.
- kavaruka 10mo agoit charges you to use the platform features that enable your use of self-hosted runners
- bdbdbdb 10mo agoI'll be investigating gitlab tomorrow
- 000ooo000 10mo agoHave used all of the big 4 forges in anger over the last decade. GitLab isn't perfect, but I'd take it over GitHub any day of the week.
- naian 10mo agoFor the same reason they charge you for running Word, even though you're the one who has to write, I guess?
- Bognar 10mo agoThey're charging you for orchestration, log storage, artifact storage, continued development of the runner binary itself and features available to self-hosted machines. What would your own machine do without the runner and service it connects to?