My desktop machine can fully rebuild the game in a few minutes. Azure takes 20-30 minutes. I'm sure many of these cloud services are using way over worked VMs. I'll deal with it because I don't want to set up and maintain my own machines for building. I have a game to make and CI build machines isn't where I want to spend any effort.
@grumpygamer or them be like “virtual private server with 6 cores!!!11” but the cores are from 10 year old Haswell Xeons…
@kkarhan@infosec.space@fuchsiii @grumpygamer oftentimes said cores ain't even "dedicaded" but shared...
- In the case of #CyberBunker they literally sold #Nehalem(-EX) hardware to customers (cross referenced by datasheets/specsheets and the fact they never updated the listings in 15+ years!)
"shared core VPS" are a very big mistake, espechally on Hosters like #Hetzner...
- Ask me how I know!
So OFC said systems are overworked, espechally the convenience-based options where one just shoves on files and tells it to "bake it"...
- OFC it shouldn't be the responsibility of a #GameDev to #DIY one's own [mastodon.gamedev.place] #CI / #CD infrastructure, and I think given the size and complexity of said games it would be overkill to do so.
If feasible, just grab' yourself a decently performing PC/Server/Laptop you can chug in a closet, SSH/RDP onto and use it as "build servant" ("Rechenknecht") to run your builds and then sent a notification [ntfy.sh] once done.
- Since speed is of no real concern, but #EnergyConsumption is (@€0,33/kWh), I got some #fanless #ThinClient as a #MiniServer with some external SSD plugged into USB 3.0