tredre3 2 years ago

Github is down a few hours per month but it has never lost data. Work doesn't grind to a halt because your git host is down. So really, Github still provides a lot more value than self hosting.

But sure, keep evangelizing and talking down to people who prefer it to self-hosting, I'm sure it will accomplish your goal.

  • rvz 2 years ago

    > Work doesn't grind to a halt because your git host is down.

    When you cannot push your critical change to master on GitHub or run your GitHub Action, then it does grind work to a halt, as it has done with the many commenters here.

    > So really, Github still provides a lot more value than self hosting.

    Centralizing everything to GitHub is much more riskier than self-hosting given the number of times GitHub has fallen over or had an 'incident'.

    > But sure, keep evangelizing and talking down to people who prefer it to self-hosting, I'm sure it will accomplish your goal.

    My point is self-proving every month and week that something in GitHub goes down or has an incident. I'll be expecting you to complain again once it falls over in a month's time at the latest.

  • maxbond 2 years ago

    I've been an incident responder where the incident was, "We promised a customer that changes would go out today, but GitHub is down, and thus our CI/CD is also down."

    It definitely does matter when GitHub goes down.