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Comment by orthecreedence

20 hours ago

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.

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amrit3128  16 hours ago

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

  • wtallis  15 hours ago

    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years: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44884709 Their recent public embarrassment resulting from having such an outdated build server is likely what triggered them to finally start the process of obtaining a replacement for their 12 year old server (that was apparently already 7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?).

    • ndriscoll  6 hours ago

      In what world is it embarrassing to not buy hardware you don't need? The servers worked fine for years. When there was an actual reason to spend money, they bought something new. Sounds like good stewardship of the donations they receive.

      I finally just upgraded my 9 year old computer with an i5-6600k to a Ryzen 9 5950x because I wanted to be able to edit home videos. I already rarely even used 1 core on the old CPU, the new one is 7x more powerful, and it's an ebay part from 5 years ago. I don't foresee needing to upgrade again for another decade. I probably would've been good for another 15-20 years if I had upgraded to a DDR5 platform, but RAM prices had already spiked, so I just swapped the motherboard and CPU.