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by gwbas1c
1548 days ago
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> At this rate the benefits of running your own gitea or gitlab are starting to become competitive When you host things yourself, you still have downtime. And, having worked with Github for over a decade, the actual disruption to my work is from downtime is much less than if I had to host my own. That being said: I briefly worked for a company that hosted its own source code control system. For us, as a small team, it wasn't worth it. The system was outdated and hosted in an insecure manner. No one ever did any "admin" work except the founder. He ran it because he had irrational fears of switching, not because of any tangible advantages over Github (and competitors.) Keep in mind that Github (and competitors) are often cheaper than the time needed to invest in hosting your own. (Estimate 10-20 hours a year of invested time. Calculate your hourly rate. Github and competitors are cheaper.) In order to come ahead, you need tangible benefits other than "I think I can have less downtime." |
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I certainly would not have this problem on self hosted instance, because it would not be behind CF. I'm sure I'd have other problems though. :)
All software is crap. You can be either spending time fixing it yourself, or spending time begging online for fixes/help from some SaaS company/community with resolution time in months, somtimes, all that while you may not be able to use it fully.
Also with SaaS it will be constantly shifting under you. Things will be moved around, restyled, iconized, popupized, etc. This doesn't help productivity either. With self-hosting, you can at least avoid upgrading, if you dislike this kind of thing. Or choose FOSS software that values UX permanency/stability, which seems to be really hard ask from SaaS business.