Hello,

On Mon, Jul 8, 2024 at 3:47 PM Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org> wrote:

> This may be a little wild, but what are the downsides to doing some
> combination of all of the above?
>
> A mixed strategy could reduce ... the upfront cost of buying and hosting
> hardware (#1), the ongoing costs of renting (#2), and dependence on the
> generosity of a third party for sponsored hardware & hosting (#3).
>
> It seems like any strategy should have some redundancy (e.g. multiple
> independent build farms) so that a failure in one datacenter does not
> effectively take down the whole network...
>

That would be my opinion too.

But for the cloud renting I would first research if there are associated
network or other costs, because the computing is cheap only to lure
you into the (sometimes prohibitive) hidden costs.


> ... though they are not full replacements for each other.
>

Maybe that should be treated as a bug/issue.

-- 
Vincent Legoll