[samdcbu]

From an SLA uptime perspective, it’s also worth considering that you don’t have a whole team working to fix your self-hosted Gitlab server when it goes down. So one outage overnight of your self-hosted server could be more downtime than more frequent, shorter GitHub outages.

[actuallyalys]

Your example also suggests another factor: downtime overnight might be less consequential than shorter outages that occur during working hours.

[duncan-donuts]

This is kind of a straw man don’t you think? Really small startups sure but I’m sure many places that self host have an ops team that can and does respond to outages on their systems.

[dec0dedab0de]

Have you ever troubleshot an outage with a whole team? I am strongly in the belief that any more than two people working on an outage makes it last longer.

[throwawaaarrgh]

Properly run incident management can have three dozen people involved with no negative impact. You need the incident manager to coordinate, communicate, run interference. You need a clear set of rules for who will have what role and responsibility. Combination of voice and text, multiple chat channels.

But yeah, if you have no plan or organization, too many cooks is detrimental.