[ProAm]

> Your question seems to indicate that you have a runtime dependency on github.

Really he is speaking to the problem with SAAS. Sure it's cheaper to rely on someone else to do the heavy lifting for you and they can do this because they 'make it up in volume'. But the other side of that coin is no one really knows how to do that anymore. If you wanted to roll your own it's going to be very hard for your company to do the basics because you've become dependent upon the cloud, and someone else paying employees to do the basics for you... The basics have never been hard.

[Twisell]

But a positiv counter argument would be that github/gitlab also does the sharing part of the jobs and you (hopefully) pay them to handle all the security aspect of that public sharing.

Opening a port to your local instance of git implies more thinking and security consideration. Of course you could host a mirror on a cloud instance, but then it's saas anyway and you have even more work to do before ever starting coding.

So yeah github/gitlab does the heavy lifting for you, but for small organisations that might be cheaper overall than to pay somebody mastering all required stack to implement and maintain your own instance(s). For big company no question that an in house git team is probably more efficient.