ServerHive turns 2 today!

Two years ago, ServerHive started as a small passion project — built out of love for the AOSP community, with no company, no team, and no guarantees. Just an idea worth building.
Today, it's a community of 1,500+ members, with 100+ builders using the infrastructure daily. What began as a hobby during my graduation is now something people genuinely rely on.

It hasn't always been easy — sleepless nights, failures, rising costs, hard calls. But that responsibility has been a privilege, because it means something real got built here.

Along the way we've added faster servers, fair resource management, automated build tracking, real-time notifications, browser-based dev, abuse protection, artifact storage, and more — all shaped by what the community actually needed. The goal never changed: reliable, powerful infrastructure that's accessible and affordable for builders.
If we were starting today, rising infra costs alone might have stopped this before it began. We got lucky on timing — but it was your trust that kept it going.

To everyone who's been part of this, early or recent: thank you. For trusting us with your projects, believing in an independent project while it was still finding its footing, and every bug report, suggestion, and bit of patience along the way. Thanks too to the admins, testers, early supporters, and everyone who spread the word — every bit of it mattered.
ServerHive isn't a company. It's community-built, and two years in only happened because of the people around it.

This is still just the beginning — more improvements and features are already on the way. The commitment stays the same: stay accessible, keep improving, and build around the people who made this possible.
Here's to two years — and everything still ahead.

Thank you all for being part of the journey ❤️

— Shravan

🚀 A Bigger, Better ServerHive: Meet Our New Infrastructure! 🐝

We're excited to share something special with you: ServerHive has received a massive infrastructure upgrade, and our community is now running on our brand-new flagship hardware! 🎉

As our community grows, so do the projects you build. From custom ROMs to full clean AOSP builds, we want to give everyone more room to build, experiment, and create without worrying about peak-hour slowdowns or running out of resources.

So, we've brought in some serious NEW GEAR — and the real-world results from over 2,000,000+ live production build snapshots are already in!

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🔥 MORE POWER. MORE MEMORY. MORE POSSIBILITIES.

Here's what's powering your builds now:

🧠 2× More CPU Cores (96 Cores / 192 Threads)
Powered by AMD EPYC 9654 with 384 MB L3 Cache — delivering +61% more active CPU cores per build and cutting CPU wait stalls by 67%.

⚡️ 3× More DDR5 RAM (768 GB Total)
Massive memory headroom giving every active build 3× more dedicated RAM (53+ GB avg per user) plus 437+ GB of hot Linux page cache — 0.00 GB swap thrashing and 96.5% fewer page faults!

🌐 10× More Network Bandwidth
A massive leap in network capacity for faster repo sync, RBE remote execution, and lightning-fast artifact uploads.

💾 5× More Enterprise NVMe Storage (84 TiB)
Backed by 6× 15.36 TB Data-Center PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSDs hitting 18.5 GB/s peak write bursts with 91% lower disk I/O stalls — no more getting stuck at 99% while packaging super.img and OTA zips!

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📈 REAL-WORLD PERFORMANCE GAINS

We measured thousands of real community builds before and after the upgrade:

⏱️ ~30-Minute Clean AOSP Builds (`1.6×` to `2.8×` Faster!)
• Average full clean AOSP build (150,000+ actions) dropped from ~49 mins ➔ ~30 mins (28.5m median) — saving ~19 minutes on every clean build!
• Same-user, same-ROM, same-device clean builds are finishing 2.0× to 2.8× faster across LineageOS, Voltage OS, Axion AOSP, Evolution X, RisingOS, crDroid, and Project Infinity.
• Long >60m build blowouts have been crushed from 20.3% down to just 2.7%.

🏆 Every Tier Now Beats Our Old Highest Tier
• Standard Tier: 46.4m ➔ `29.1m` (+77% faster compile speed)
• Upper-Mid Tier: 52.9m ➔ `31.3m` (+62% faster compile speed)
• Mid Tier: 49.8m ➔ `32.4m` (+53% faster compile speed)
Even a Mid-tier plan on the new machine compiles faster than our old flagship High-Core plan did!

🛡 Peak-Hour Rush? Zero Sweat.
• With 6 to 13+ simultaneous builds running during peak hours, compile speeds are 68% to 101% faster (up to 2× faster under heavy load) — with zero forced build freezes or process kills.

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🚀 BUILT FOR THE WAY YOU BUILD

Android builds are demanding. Large source trees, memory-heavy R8 / Java / Kotlin / Clang linking, and multiple users building at once put huge pressure on a server.

With this upgrade, you get:
More memory. More compute capacity. More storage. More network headroom.

Our goal is simple: spend less time fighting resource limits and staring at progress bars, and more time building the ROMs you love. ❤️

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💚 THE BEST PART? YOUR PRICING STAYS THE SAME.

Yep, you read that right! 😄

✅ More resources (`2× CPU`, `3× RAM`, `5× NVMe`, `10× Network`).
✅ Up to `2×` faster peak-hour builds & `~30m` clean builds.
✅ No price increase.

We're committed to leveling up your building experience while keeping ServerHive accessible — at zero additional cost to you.

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🐝 THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING

ServerHive has always been about more than servers. It's about the people building, experimenting, sharing their work, and helping each other create something amazing.

Thank you to everyone who's trusted us with their builds, shared feedback (pushing our community performance rating to 4.75 / 5.0 ⭐️), and helped ServerHive grow. We genuinely couldn't do this without you.

New gear. More headroom. Faster builds. Same price. 🚀

Here's to faster builds and an even better building experience!

💚 Happy building, ServerHive!

🚀 ServerHive OSS Support Program – Season 2

After a successful first season, we're happy to bring back the ServerHive OSS Support Program!

This time, we're looking forward to supporting even more open-source Android projects. With more infrastructure and compute capacity available, we hope to reach more developers than before. ❤️

As part of Season 2, selected projects will receive 1 month of free server access, giving developers the resources they need to build, maintain, and improve their ROMs/Android Projects.

Are you Lead/Source developer an Android projects or a ROM?

Raise an issue in our GitHub repository to apply:

🔗 https://github.com/ServerHive-Development/oss-program/issues

We'll manually review each application, verify the developer's profile and ROM sources, and get in touch with selected projects.

Know a developer who could benefit from this? Share this announcement with them!

Let's support more projects and keep the open-source Android community growing! ❤️

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