Amazing, testing this out tomorrow !
Show HN: Open-source x64 and Arm GitHub runners
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Re: Show HN: Open-source x64 and Arm GitHub runners
#72Congrats on the launch. Looks interesting. Quick thoughts on the landing page: - Pricing looks awesome. - I'm not currently the target audience because everything I'm doing right now is open source with free GitHub actions. - I'm left wondering what the catch is / why it's cheaper and faster. - Visual nit: lacking horizontal padding from 990px to ~1200px, a common window size on my 14" MBP. > Ubicloud is an open sour…
Thank you for your feedback! I've just made several edits to the text for clarity; will also fix UX bugs and do bigger a update in the upcoming weeks.
Re: Show HN: Open-source x64 and Arm GitHub runners
#73Congrats on the launch. Looks interesting. Quick thoughts on the landing page: - Pricing looks awesome. - I'm not currently the target audience because everything I'm doing right now is open source with free GitHub actions. - I'm left wondering what the catch is / why it's cheaper and faster. - Visual nit: lacking horizontal padding from 990px to ~1200px, a common window size on my 14" MBP. > Ubicloud is an open sour…
If we're doing nits, because this product looks cool, here are a couple of potential tweaks: > Imagine to do more I'd get rid of this. I don't understand the phrase, and it sounds like fluff. > Fast runs even at this price point I'd get rid of the "point". "Price point" isn't a synonym for "price", which I think is what's being attempted here. I'd be tempted to just have no tagline, and retitle this section "Faster t…
Much appreciate the nits! I've made a few minor tweaks right now, we will do a more complete revision later on.
Re: Show HN: Open-source x64 and Arm GitHub runners
#74Congrats on the launch, certainly good to see competition.
I was reading https://www.ubicloud.com/blog/ubicloud-hosted-arm-runners-10... but seems like a bit misleading to compare an ARM workload over QEMU vs a native ARM.
What about native x86 vs native x86 or at least native x86 vs native arm?
Re: Show HN: Open-source x64 and Arm GitHub runners
#75Looks neat. I've been using https://github.com/philips-labs/terraform-aws-github-runner to save on $
Re: Show HN: Open-source x64 and Arm GitHub runners
#76We've been using the Ubicloud runner for a while at PeerDB[1]. Great value and specially the ARM runners have been helpful to get our CI costs down. The team is really responsive and added the arm runner support within a few weeks of us requesting it.
Re: Show HN: Open-source x64 and Arm GitHub runners
#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
We support GitHub MacOS 13 runners on M2 Pros at WarpBuild [1]. They're about 25% faster and 50% cheaper per minute compared to the equivalent GitHub hosted runners. [1] https://docs.warpbuild.com/runners#macos-m2-pro-on-arm64
Any timeline for supporting repositories in personal accounts? I'm willing to create an organization and move the repository, but I won't bother if it's right around the corner. macOS ARM runners are a gamechanger given the offensively high pricing GitHub offers them at.
We're not prioritizing personal accounts at this point, one of the reasons being to limit spammy accounts.
Sorry about the hassle - you sound like a genuine user.
Re: Show HN: Open-source x64 and Arm GitHub runners
#78One thing I find frustrating about the Github Actions's runner pricing is that it's calculated on a minute basis. Couldn't you bill by the second instead? Maybe set a minimum to 1 min but after that charge by the second? I assume this is done to cover the time that the VM reboots between jobs?
This is exactly what we do at WarpBuild, more in the interest of fairness and not passing on random costs to users.
The VM reboot times add up quickly and that's likely the rationale. However, it gets hard when there are users running linting jobs that take ~2s but running it with 16vcpu instances so we kept the 1 min floor.
Re: Show HN: Open-source x64 and Arm GitHub runners
#79The people buying github/actions are getting at least 10K minutes included as part of their EA agreement, and they can use their own runners for zero cost. I think most enterprises are more concerned with having their bits on a cloud provider, versus pricing, but that's my limited experience.
Re: Show HN: Open-source x64 and Arm GitHub runners
#80Am I missing something or GitHub can easily block all 3rd party runners if they want to?
Of course, but doesn't GitHub embrace these runners?