| ▲ | londons_explore 5 days ago | |||||||||||||
This.... I bet arXiv was run on server hardware costing under $10k before... And now it'll end up costing $10k per month (with free credit from Google which will eventually go away and then arXiv will shut down or be forced to go commercial) | ||||||||||||||
| ▲ | perihelions 5 days ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||||||||
arXiv budgets about $88,000/year for server costs as of 2019, (pdf) https://info.arxiv.org/about/reports/arXiv_CY19_midyear.pdf | ||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | falcor84 5 days ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||||||||
I assume they would still have the serving code they use now and if they do choose to go back to maintaining it on their own hardware they'll always have that option. It seems they just don't want that anymore. | ||||||||||||||
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