Comment by hollow-moe
3 hours ago
I wonder if the GitHub actions outages we keep seeing is due to themselves making self-hosted runners paid, hence bringing broke/cheap users back from hosted runners to their garbage infra.Meanwhile I'm running my Codeberg Actions on the free Oracle ARM machine 2 cores 12GB ram (previously 4 cores 24GB) and way more reliable. Keep winning bozos.
Edit: After second thought, I guess "alternative runner" providers still have to pay the self-hosted tax. So M$ actually saves and makes money by not scaling their infra and driving people to alternative providers they can tax freely. Actual geniuses.
They abandoned (or at least postponed) the idea of charging for self-hosted runners usage.
Actions management plane is the most problematic part of the platform (in regards to scale), so they are basically losing money with self-hosted runners.
Scaling of VMs shouldn't be a problem, since that is practically stateless, whereas there are lots of operations performed for every job/workflow.