[RaitoBezarius]

Honestly, we are an open source project, not a company. If we have the money, of course, we would prefer to spend it there and do better and more with it.

If this is threatening in a serious countenance, our growth and ability to conduct our project. I'm not sure if we need all the 9s of durability of S3, given that people already lost all their buckets on S3.

We do not have the money to store 5x or 6x the contents of the cache.

So we much prefer to have control, and we have enough skills to run all that shit easily, the problem is that the skilled people are in rare availability and are usually working on harder problems than running that. So ultimately, this is a balance problem.

Disclaimer: NixOS developer, 23.05 Release Manager.