I've never understood this argument. Even if self-hosted things were offline more often (which I've never found to be the case, I've had Forgejo + runners running for a year now with no downtime), the real benefit is that you yourself can work to bring it back online when it does, rather than waiting on a large, slow-moving organization to figure out what slopped PR caused their global service serving ungodly amounts of RPS to go offline again.
Self-hosting a service like GitHub that operates at GitHub scale is difficult.
Self-hosting a service like GitHub that operates at the typical small/medium company's scale is trivial.
A single machine (with separate runners for CI) will cover many companies' needs. It being a single machine eliminates a lot of the complexity and failure modes associated with a distributed system and makes backups/restores/maintenance easy.
I’ve been self-hosting lore and gitea the past 6 months or so and it’s been a breeze. For anything I really care to share I throw up on Tangled.
Except anything I'd self host would be down much more often. I've hardly ever actually experienced down time issues with github when I needed it.
I've never understood this argument. Even if self-hosted things were offline more often (which I've never found to be the case, I've had Forgejo + runners running for a year now with no downtime), the real benefit is that you yourself can work to bring it back online when it does, rather than waiting on a large, slow-moving organization to figure out what slopped PR caused their global service serving ungodly amounts of RPS to go offline again.
I wrote my reply before yours appeared but it's basically agreeing. A simple Forgejo hasn't given me any grief. It really seems simpler.
Maybe they're hosting in us-east-1 though :)
lol
Then you would be exceptionally bad at selfhosting as Github has like one nine of uptime.
It still has 2 9s according to the status page, but it is approaching Claude levels of downtime. :(
Hard disagree.
Self-hosting a service like GitHub that operates at GitHub scale is difficult.
Self-hosting a service like GitHub that operates at the typical small/medium company's scale is trivial.
A single machine (with separate runners for CI) will cover many companies' needs. It being a single machine eliminates a lot of the complexity and failure modes associated with a distributed system and makes backups/restores/maintenance easy.
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