El 09/09/2024 a las 17:48, Hans Dembinski via Boost escribió:
The storage costs are minimal but the bandwidth is not. At one point Boost downloads approached 60TB per month and Bintray couldn't afford to support us for free. JFrog generously offered to take over. Recently, our downloads started approaching almost 200TB per month, and now even JFrog couldn't afford to keep hosting us for free. They suggested we use a CDN to reduce traffic costs. I reached out to multiple providers to get a good deal. The best rate was from Fastly but this was also too expensive. The C++ Alliance offered to handle these costs and we subscribed to Fastly. Sam Darwin administers our Fastly account.
Isn't that a contradiction to the Boost-is-in-decline narrative?
My understanding is that this bandwidth increase is due to some new non-C++ language packages depending on Boost, not because we have 3x C++ developers downloading boost. Best, Ion