Migrating from AWS to Self-Hosting
You often hear this story in tech news: some project got increasingly popular, so they had to migrate from their simple, one-computer setup to some kind of autoscaling cloud hosting solution to meet demands.
The Rust Foundation for example, reports that they spent $404,400 on infrastructure costs in 2023. That's 88% of ZSF's entire operating costs in 2024. It's hard to find the exact number from Python Software Foundation's financials because their infrastructure costs are sponsored, but suffice to say PyPI wheel storage is huge and exponentially growing: [...]