gitlab.fd.o financial situation and impact on services

[Matt Turner]

On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 12:00 AM Daniel Stone <daniel at fooishbar.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Matt,
>
> On Thu, 27 Feb 2020 at 23:45, Matt Turner <mattst88 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > We're paying 75K USD for the bandwidth to transfer data from the
> > GitLab cloud instance. i.e., for viewing the https site, for
> > cloning/updating git repos, and for downloading CI artifacts/images to
> > the testing machines (AFAIU).
>
> I believe that in January, we had $2082 of network cost (almost
> entirely egress; ingress is basically free) and $1750 of cloud-storage
> cost (almost all of which was download). That's based on 16TB of
> cloud-storage (CI artifacts, container images, file uploads, Git LFS)
> egress and 17.9TB of other egress (the web service itself, repo
> activity). Projecting that out gives us roughly $45k of network
> activity alone, so it looks like this figure is based on a projected
> increase of ~50%.
>
> The actual compute capacity is closer to $1150/month.

Could we have the full GCP bill posted?