I was thinking mostly of iso images I guess. You are talking about package updates.

First, fair point.

That said, for package updates, are there not Alpine mirrors? You do not need much bandwidth to feed out to the mirrors.

But I agree that, ultimately, they are going to have to find a home for the package repos if they want to directly feed their install base.

As for “the other costs”, those do not seem to have anything to do with their hosting going away.