> In recent months alone, AWS, Cloudflare, GitHub, and others have had significant outages. Shared platforms fail too, and when they do, failures are global. A small, well-understood system under your control is easier to reason about and recover.
As prophesied half a decade ago as GitHub gradually declined in reliability. [0]
Post author here. Yeah, the reply to your comment echoes the exact "obvious truths" I'm railing against:
> Even ignoring the higher cost to set up, are you sure your self-hosted solution will have better uptime? Are you sure you'll be able to get things up and running faster when it does go down than GitHub will when GitHub goes down?
> In recent months alone, AWS, Cloudflare, GitHub, and others have had significant outages. Shared platforms fail too, and when they do, failures are global. A small, well-understood system under your control is easier to reason about and recover.
As prophesied half a decade ago as GitHub gradually declined in reliability. [0]
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22868406
Post author here. Yeah, the reply to your comment echoes the exact "obvious truths" I'm railing against:
> Even ignoring the higher cost to set up, are you sure your self-hosted solution will have better uptime? Are you sure you'll be able to get things up and running faster when it does go down than GitHub will when GitHub goes down?