If I were running a volunteer project, I would be dumping thousands a month into top-tier hosting across multiple datacenters around the world with global failover.
the _if_ is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. You're free to complain about it but Fdroid has been running fine for years and I'd rather have a volunteer manage the servers than some big corporation
They quite notably haven't been running fine for years: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44884709 Their recent public embarrassment resulting from having such an outdated build server is likely what triggered them to finally start the process of obtaining a replacement for their 12 year old server (that was apparently already 7 years old when they started using it?).
If I were running a volunteer project, I would be dumping thousands a month into top-tier hosting across multiple datacenters around the world with global failover.
the _if_ is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. You're free to complain about it but Fdroid has been running fine for years and I'd rather have a volunteer manage the servers than some big corporation
They quite notably haven't been running fine for years: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44884709 Their recent public embarrassment resulting from having such an outdated build server is likely what triggered them to finally start the process of obtaining a replacement for their 12 year old server (that was apparently already 7 years old when they started using it?).
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