Hi Jan, On Fri, 28 Feb 2020 at 10:09, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Friday 2020-02-28 08:59, Daniel Stone wrote: > >I believe that in January, we had $2082 of network cost (almost > >entirely egress; ingress is basically free) and $1750 of > >cloud-storage cost (almost all of which was download). That's based > >on 16TB of cloud-storage (CI artifacts, container images, file > >uploads, Git LFS) egress and 17.9TB of other egress (the web service > >itself, repo activity). Projecting that out [×12 for a year] gives > >us roughly $45k of network activity alone, > > I had come to a similar conclusion a few years back: It is not very > economic to run ephemereal buildroots (and anything like it) between > two (or more) "significant locations" of which one end is located in > a Large Cloud datacenter like EC2/AWS/etc. > > As for such usecases, me and my surrounding peers have used (other) > offerings where there is 50 TB free network/month, and yes that may > have entailed doing more adminning than elsewhere - but an admin > appreciates $2000 a lot more than a corporation, too. Yes, absolutely. For context, our storage & network costs have increased >10x in the past 12 months (~$320 Jan 2019), >3x in the past 6 months (~$1350 July 2019), and ~2x in the past 3 months (~$2000 Oct 2019). I do now (personally) think that it's crossed the point at which it would be worthwhile paying an admin to solve the problems that cloud services currently solve for us - which wasn't true before. Such an admin could also deal with things like our SMTP delivery failure rate, which in the past year has spiked over 50% (see previous email), demand for new services such as Discourse which will enable user support without either a) users having to subscribe to a mailing list, or b) bug trackers being cluttered up with user requests and other non-bugs, etc. Cheers, Daniel _______________________________________________ Intel-gfx mailing list Intel-gfx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/intel-gfx
