[gibsonje]

This is what I don't get. I trust github as a central platform more than hosting my own gitlab in the cloud.

There's a lot of people spreading a holier than thou attitude in this thread.

[mrsirduke]

GitHub is a much larger target, and has many, many more moving parts than your average Gitlab on, say, a Linode virtual server.

Github will probably have more downtime which you can do noting about, than your selfhosted gitlab, which will probably fail because you upgraded something, or tinkered with a configuration.

It's a numbers game. They have more people monitoring, they spend way more money than you do on uptime/services, but such a service doesn't get more stable as it grows.

I trust myself way more than I trust GitHub or other hosted/cloud services because I cannot affect/help them in any way when stuff happens.

Ultimately, I know this, I accept this, and I happily use GitHub, Bitbucket and such all the time.

[hn_user2]

>Github will probably have more downtime which you can do noting about, than your selfhosted gitlab, which will probably fail because you upgraded something, or tinkered with a configuration.

Personally I don't think you will see less downtime on your own server. The difference is, that when it goes down, there is something you can do about it, so you get busy fixing it.

When github is down we get to all get online and talk about our woes together.

The outages are usually pretty short. Go get a coffee and come back, or grab the team and go play a round of bowling. That has to be better than trying to manage and keep secure our own repos.

[IE6]

This - the last thing I want to do is be on the line when something happens to our git server and no one can work because our solution is my own custom one-off.

[gibsonje]

I don't know what to say other than I disagree.