For commercial use, $45/month is a low enough cost to be noise for many businesses (even though the bandwidth transfer markup is eye watering). If it’s breaking your budget, you can always pull and then push to another registry (it’s just tarballs after all) or build new images from scratch with your Dockerfiles. Open source projects and similar cost sensitive use cases might consider https://github.com/miguelmota/ipdr
Docker Hub is similar to Youtube in the sense that it’s a whole lot of bandwidth and storage used and someone has to pay for it. Could you run your own? Time is expensive. Don’t unless you absolutely have to.
Docker Hub is similar to Youtube in the sense that it’s a whole lot of bandwidth and storage used and someone has to pay for it. Could you run your own? Time is expensive. Don’t unless you absolutely have to.