[Arelius]

> I'm left wondering what the catch is / why it's cheaper and faster.

So, while this is the first time I've heard of ubicloud, I use gha extensively.

Abd frankly, I think it's just because Github has a crazy markup on their actions compute over the raw compute. Taking a quick look, it appears that their base rate is like $0.008 per-minute!! That's a rate that wouldn't look crazy out of line with EC2's hourly rate.

I've worked on projects where we saved significant money, and improved build times just by launching a single EC2 instance and connecting it to Actions.

[pinkgolem]

Iops on GitHub runners is also terrible slow, you easily get a 5x to 10x improvement

We did the same, and set up GitHub actions runners on hetzner

Halfed the integration test time and made them more reliable.

[password4321]

I've heard CI/CD in general and GitHub Actions specifically is where old cloud hardware goes until it dies.

[crohr]

Just a catch with Hetzner vs AWS: pricing at AWS is per-second while Hetzner is per-hour, which is (very) inconvenient if you're launching ephemeral runners.

[pinkgolem]

while thats true.. i am using TestFlows-GitHub-Hetzner-Runners, which recycles runner for the 1 hour lifetime, works like a charm so far

also main reason for switching was performance, not cost for us.