Re: Boost Asset Stewardship Review - Some questions received

From: hans.dembinski_at_[hidden]
Date: 2024-09-09 15:48:21

> The storage costs are minimal but the bandwidth is not. At one point Boost
downloads approached 60TB per month and Bintray couldn't afford to support
us for free. JFrog generously offered to take over.
> Recently, our downloads started approaching almost 200TB per month, and
now even JFrog couldn't afford to keep hosting us for free. They suggested
we use a CDN to reduce traffic costs. I reached out to multiple
> providers to get a good deal. The best rate was from Fastly but this was
also too expensive. The C++ Alliance offered to handle these costs and we
subscribed to Fastly. Sam Darwin administers our Fastly account.

Isn't that a contradiction to the Boost-is-in-decline narrative?