I run about 1 action a day taking 18h running on 2 runners One being self hosted 24gb ram 8 core ARM vps and one being a 64gb 13900k x86 dedicated server

Now the GitHub pricing change definitely? costs more than both servers combined a month ... (They cost about 60$ together )

3 step GitHub action builds around 1200 nix packages and derivations , but produces only around 50 lines of logs total if successful and maybe 200 lines of log once when a failure occurs And I'm supposed to pay 4$ a day for that ? Wonder what kind of actual costs are involved on their side of waiting for a runner to complete and storing 50 lines of log

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alexellisuk 6 days ago | parent | next [-]

It sounds like you'd be better off self-hosting Jenkins. The other issue with GHA is they cap all runs at 6 hours.

Despite what people say about "maintaining" Jenkins (whatever that means to them personally) - you can set it up in an IaaC way including the jobs. You can migrate/create jobs en masse via its API (I did this about 10 years ago for a large US company converting from what was then called TFS)

	▲	franktankbank 5 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		What problem does Jenkins solve? When we got jenkins working how we wanted it was a giant groovy script that was handling checkout manually.
	▲	gallexme 5 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I'll likely check out buildbot or just switch to gitlab

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janc_ 6 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Somewhere around 0.00004$ probably.

Nice profit margin…