It’s interesting to see the posts from warpbuild, blacksmith, buikdjet and others defending their business model that was based on the inefficiency of GitHub. I love the fact that git is built in such an open way that if you are worried about running in your own infrastructure you can easily deploy it (It’s just like SSH!) yourself. At least for me, cheaper GitHub actions is a win because I can’t justify running my own git. But these companies that are based on offering you a faster or cheaper github actions service are actually the worst of both worlds: they are not your platform and they are not in the position to offer you a better service. I’m not gonna miss them when they’re gone or transformed into an AI pivot.
Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions
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Re: Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions
#432Earlier quoted context omitted.
I appreciate being able to pay for a service I rely on. Using self-hosted runners, I previously paid nothing for Github Actions — now I do pay something for it. The price is extremely cheap and seems reasonable considering the benefits I receive. They've shown continued interest in investing in the product, and have a variety of things on their public roadmap that I'm looking forward to (including parallel steps) — h…
> The price is extremely cheap and you expect it to stay this way?
> and seems reasonable considering the benefits I receive.
> I would still make the same decision to purchase or abandon based on its value to me.
Re: Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions
#433This customer will be leaving GitHub action runners for punishing self-hosting.
GitLab CI and others seem to be perfectly serviceable.
Re: Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions
#434Earlier quoted context omitted.
Codeberg's uptime is so bad, that it actually makes GitHub look good. ~96.5% over last 2 weeks [1] [1]: https://status.codeberg.org/status/codeberg
I'm sure if Codeberg had equivalent resources they'd be good, hard to fault a nonprofit for not benefiting from a trillion dollar multinational corporation. What was GitHub's excuse for their failures?
I am not criticizing Codeberg, I'm just adding context that seems very important from my experience.
As mentioned above — I am glad that they exist and do what they do. However, that doesn't mean I should ignore issues like this.
Re: Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions
#435This seems backwards. Why charge for me to run the thing myself instead of them?
Because GHA was stagnant and expensive and multiple services like https://www.warpbuild.com/ popped up, with better performance and much lower price. Looks like they ate enough of GH’s lunch…
Re: Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions
#436how long before they start skimming OSS projects that are public but nonetheless have Github Sponsors income. I mean that's money right there for them right
Wasn't that the key concern of Zig moving off GitHub?
dunno, but this is only actions. You can use github without being dependent on actions.
Re: Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions
#437More than 6 years users of OneDev (onedev.io).
- Git repo - Ticketing, Kaban - Full helpdesk - Complete and full CI/CD - everything links via custom workflow - self hosted
I still dont know why everyone hasn't switch yet to that banger.
Re: Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions
#438This is a serious issue. How is it possible for GitHub/Microsoft to charge me for using my own machine as a self-hosted GitHub Actions runner?
I'll be investigating gitlab tomorrow
Have used all of the big 4 forges in anger over the last decade. GitLab isn't perfect, but I'd take it over GitHub any day of the week.
Re: Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions
#439This is my first comment on HN despite being a user for over a decade -- this is one of the most outrageous pricing changes I've encountered - I couldn't believe it when I read the email earlier (I run self-hosted runners). Anyone using GitLab or any other VCM that you'd recommend? I'm absolutely done with Github. Or is everything else just as bad?
"Outrageous"? It's two tenths of a cent per minute. How much will it impact you, really, particularly relative to the cost of compute?
That’s 2.5x what my actual runners cost. For every $100 in compute, I will be paying $250 to github. They can fuck right off
Re: Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions
#440Personally, I quite liked GitLab CI when I used it circa 2021-23. Just now I did a quick search and found this article^1 suggesting (even before this GH pricing change) Gitlab CI may be a better choice than Github Actions. 1. https://medium.com/@the_atomic_architect/github-vs-gitlab-20...
I LOVE gitlab, but their new pricing is absurd. It feels like they are trying to shovelware their AI stuff. Their cheapest plan is more than 7x the cost of github, AND more expensive than github enterprise! And thats on the _cheapest_ non free gitlab plan. If you self host gitlab entirely, you can't even get branch/force-push protection. If they could bring their pricing to even just 2x github by having a NON-AI plan…
You mean "Protected branches"? Last time I checked that was part of the free tier, and the documentation[0] states the same.
[0]: https://docs.gitlab.com/user/project/repository/branches/pro...