TIL that https://rubygems.org recently surpassed 4B downloads per month. That is over 1500 downloads per second … all day every day. RubyCentral does this on a shoestring budget. If you do anything with Ruby, you’re depending on Ruby gems and the work RubyCentral does. Consider sponsoring them! Check out: https://rubycentral.org

Oh yeah, one more point: do you recall a recent rubygems outage? Chances are you can’t! Such an impressive track record!