Image hosting at scale is an expensive business and Docker are not the only ones trying to manage the costs.
Kubernetes is currently in the process of changing the main repository for their images because, as I understand it, they're burning through their free GCP credits an an unsustainable rate.
Ideally Docker Hub would be an industry funded effort, but that would require co-operation and funding from the major tech. players, and I have a feeling that in an era of cost cutting, that might be harder to achieve than it was in the past.
Kubernetes is currently in the process of changing the main repository for their images because, as I understand it, they're burning through their free GCP credits an an unsustainable rate.
Ideally Docker Hub would be an industry funded effort, but that would require co-operation and funding from the major tech. players, and I have a feeling that in an era of cost cutting, that might be harder to achieve than it was in the past.