Ask HN: How does Gemcutter support itself?

6 pointsby boggles17 anni fa2 comments

http://gemcutter.org/

Gemcutter seems to have displaced Github as the gem host of choice these days. That's not a plug - I have no dog in this fight.

But I am wondering how reliable they will be over the long term since I don't see much evidence of a business plan. They prominently display the Heroku and ThoughtBot logos on the main page.

But there must be more to their business model than simple sponsorship?

Or it simply not very expensive to host all of the world's gems?

2 comments

xgamerx17 anni fa

I believe they are storing the gems on amazon S3 and the costs are quite minimal. Here is the guy who runs gemcutter calculating S3 costs based on metrics for rubyforge: http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/rubygems-developers/2009-Augu...

jpcx0117 anni fa

Not sure either... how does RubyForge stay afloat?