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Are GitHub and Digital Ocean competitors nowadays? Or you're just referring to anything that offers "run code on someone elses computer, somehow"?


Sorry, my post was rather lacking context wasn't it. What I meant was that the vast majority of my work is now done end to end on ARM CPUs and even the bits that haven't been, like GitHub runners, are starting to make ARM an option. Customers have been asking Digital Ocean for ARM servers for years [0], and every time they do, DO just tell you to upvote the suggestion on their feedback site, but you can't, because they closed it [1].

[0] https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/feature-req...

[1] https://ideas.digitalocean.com/core-compute-platform/p/arm-b...

edit for additional context: An ARM server on Hetzner costs roughly 1/10th that of an x86 one on DO with the same core count and memory, and in my tests out-performs it too.




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