[thayne]

Well, if you host it yourself, and it goes down, then you have control over getting it back up, rather than waiting for someone else to fix it.

Though really, if it is that important for it to be up, you should mirror it to at least one other provider (ex. self-hosted and github).

[thaumasiotes]

I did work somewhere once with GitLab self-hosted in a VM. The person in charge believed it was important to reboot the VM every so often.

One day, for whatever reason, he couldn't bring the VM back up. Self-hosted GitLab was out for the rest of the day. I found this pretty funny.