[jballanc]

A GitLab droplet on Digital Ocean should run you only $10/month and literally sets up in ~10 min.

[danellis]

Then you've just shifted the problem from GitHub being down to a VPS you've spent 10 minutes maintaining being down.

[netheril96]

What makes the servers of digital ocean safer than github?

[jballanc]

They're not GitHub. i.e. The chance of GitHub and your GitLab instance on DO going down simultaneously is very slim. Spend an extra $10/month and you can set up another DO server in another data-center, and reduce the odds of simultaneous failure even further.