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Josh Strange replaced GitHub Actions

Now: Self-hosted runners on homelab VMs, running 8 weeks

$450–$540net saved per year, after running costs

Solo founder Josh Strange moved his PR-check GitHub Actions jobs onto snapshot-restored VMs on his idle homelab after a month of overage charges, keeping only a few tiny tasks on GitHub-hosted runners.

Receipt #02872026-09-08

Josh Strange

Old billGitHub Actions overage, $45 a month
$45
NowRemaining GitHub-hosted tasks, under $0.25 a day
$0–$8
Net saved per month$38–$45/mo

Thank you for not renewing

Source

news.ycombinator.com

Numbers as reported. How this ledger works

Timeline

  1. Replaced2026-09-08

Stack

claudeself-hosted-runners

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Others who left GitHub Actions

#CompanyNet saved /mo
1
SODAGitHub Actions replaced with Self-hosted EC2 runners with RunsOn
$21K/mofor 15 months
2
NullAlphaGitHub Actions replaced with Autoscaling self-hosted runners on Kubernetes
$11.5K/mofor 4 weeks
3
HarmonicGitHub Actions replaced with Self-hosted CI runners on GKE
$3,167/mofor 9 days
4
DevOpsNessGitHub Actions replaced with Self-hosted runners on EKS Spot
$2,410/mofor 6 months
5
The GuardianGitHub Actions replaced with Self-hosted runners for iOS builds
$520/mofor 10 months

Everyone who replaced GitHub Actions

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