Re: Cirrus CI limiting free compute time

2023-08-22 Thread Dan Fandrich via curl-library
On Tue, Aug 22, 2023 at 04:06:17PM +0200, Jimmy Sjölund via curl-library wrote: > Considering that Cirrus CI lists curl and use the logo on their first page I didn't notice that before! Usually, it's the companies that pay to show up on the curl sponsors page. curl has become such a trusted

Re: Cirrus CI limiting free compute time

2023-08-22 Thread Jimmy Sjölund via curl-library
On August 22, 2023 2:53:51 AM GMT+02:00, Dan Fandrich via curl-library wrote: >Another option is to rent one or more virtual servers somewhere and hook them >up >to Cirrus CI for only $10 per month. To replace our current usage would require >at least 8 virtual servers, though, so still

Re: Cirrus CI limiting free compute time

2023-08-22 Thread Daniel Stenberg via curl-library
On Mon, 21 Aug 2023, Dan Fandrich via curl-library wrote: They have an easy-to-use credit-card entry form for us to buy credits, but it looks to me like that would cost us almost $3500 per month (presumably USD). I am prepared to pay for services we use and rely on, but that's simply not a

Re: Cirrus CI limiting free compute time

2023-08-21 Thread Timothe Litt via curl-library
At $3500/mo, you could buy a pretty decent physical server in less than a month.  Last one I bought was ~USD $2500 - I went for a model year behind (besides being cheaper, I have no use for the "efficiency"/large core mixes).  Several Tb of disk, ECC memory, 6 cores (12 counting HT), 3.4GHz,

Cirrus CI limiting free compute time

2023-08-21 Thread Dan Fandrich via curl-library
The curl Cirrus CI pages now link[1] to a notice that they're limiting their free CI tier starting next week. The new limit will be "50 compute credits" per month, which seems to buy us about 260 hours of compute time. Unfortunately, curl has been using about 6000 hours of compute time per month