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Ziglang.org migrates from AWS to self-hosting

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.

Amazon sometimes offers free credits to organizations like ours, but despite being a non-profit with our primary source of income being unrestricted donations, we don't like begging for money, especially from Jeff Bezos and his ilk. Instead of spending donation money eating these costs which are ultimately due to inefficient use of computing resources, we push those otherwise hidden costs onto users of Zig, causing Zig users in general to avoid waste, and then we have more money to spend on paying contributors for their time. In any case, by using this particular GitHub Action that integrates with mirrors, you'll not only be doing us a favor, but you'll make your own CI more resilient.

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