I think he was responding to: > Since I prefer Mercurial over git I don't have any other option than to run my own instance. You do have another option – you

I think he was responding to: > Since I prefer Mercurial over git I don't have any other option than to run my own instance. You do have another option – you can use Mercurial with Bitbucket. Sure, it's not self-hosted, but you were complaining that you were forced to self-host because you prefer Mercurial, right?