We provide CI CD services from a small data center we run, but the problem that we typically have is that cloud runners are:

1. Too cost effective to sustain a business competing against it (cloud) in terms of price

2. Too critical to business for us to cut costs by simplifying hardware requirements/cutting down redundancies (power and network)

I find the direction of your business fascinating because not only are you promising higher performance service (our main selling point is that we buy HW that cloud providers won’t buy.. like low core count high clock speed[1]) but you are promising to run the business on a fraction of the revenue.

We encourage our customers with pricing perks and deals to buy more than they need, because we need the consistently high revenue even if they don’t use their service to keep the doors open and the hardware up to date. Also there is not much difference in the power usage between idle and 100% usage, so our overheads aren’t reduced when they aren’t using. Surely you would need a HUGE scale to run your company profitably.

Are you hosting your runners in the cloud at a loss ATM? We should connect.

[1]: we can build SW in 6 minutes vs 20 minutes on an EC2 large with no IOPS bottleneck. Cloud is actually generally pretty slow.