[rsync]

"Is there a rock-solid git server that I can use on a home server for versioned immutable backups ..."

A few things ...

First, 'git' is built into the rsync.net platform and you can do anything you like with it, remotely, over ssh:

  ssh [e-mail] "git clone git://github.com/freebsd/freebsd.git freebsd"

I personally track a number of repos I consider important and keep my own source trees up to date without running git locally.

Second, the ZFS snapshots that are taken, nightly, of your entire rsync.net account are immutable (read-only) so if you clone/update your git repos into your account, they are protected from ransomeware/mallory.

Third, we finally have LFS / git-lfs support which pleases me greatly.

[strogonoff]

A question I had for a long time: is rsync.net affiliated in some way with the authors of the rsync utility?

[rsync]

No, there is no affiliation at all.

However, in late 2005 / early 2006, when we spun it out[1] as a standalone corporation and registered the domain name, etc., I did request, and receive, explicit permission from the authors/maintainers of rsync to adopt, and use, the rsync.net name.

[1] rsync.net began operation in 2001 as an add-on feature to JohnCompanies which was the first provider of the VPS as we now know it.

[strogonoff]

Thanks for elaborating. I sort of wish this was mentioned somewhere in a FAQ section but maybe that’s just me.