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by mitochondrion 2930 days ago
I'm sometimes amazed at how afraid otherwise competent software dudes are of a bit of sysadministration.
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It's not fear. It's experience. Having to keep an extra OS and software patched and up-to-date (often times different to the rest of your SoE because it's different software) and keep it safe from real-world threats takes a lot of time and context-switching to do well.

Hosting anything well takes up a lot more effort than the $100+/month we pay to GitHub and even the $7/month I pay personally.

You don't even have to self-host it now. You can host it on pretty much any cloud service.