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A comment on The NixOS Foundation’s Call to Action: S3 Costs Require Community Support. Parent comment

Re:The NixOS Foundation’s Call to Action: S3 Costs Require C... by vasco on Saturday June 03, 2023 @04:29PM (#36180243)
Yes it is very simple, you pay for support. Maybe I don't know any better, working professionally on top of AWS for almost 10 years and growing usage from a couple of thousands a month to half a million a month (while remaining profitable the whole time). Maybe, just maybe, people disagree with you even if they are informed.

And for the point in question, you don't need to talk to anyone, the point is there's thousands of datacenter, networking, app-level layers of staff all working to make service stable for you without you even knowing. I don't need to talk to anyone if an S3 server, rack, or even full DC goes down.

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Re:The NixOS Foundation’s Call to Action: S3 Costs Require C... by RaitoBezarius on Saturday June 03, 2023 @06:10PM (#36181010)
Honestly, we are an open source project, not a company. If we have the money, of course, we would prefer to spend it there and do better and more with it.

If this is threatening in a serious countenance, our growth and ability to conduct our project. I'm not sure if we need all the 9s of durability of S3, given that people already lost all their buckets on S3.

We do not have the money to store 5x or 6x the contents of the cache.

So we much prefer to have control, and we have enough skills to run all that shit easily, the problem is that the skilled people are in rare availability and are usually working on harder problems than running that. So ultimately, this is a balance problem.

Disclaimer: NixOS developer, 23.05 Release Manager.

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