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I really want you to produce evidence for that. Everyone I know who selfhosts gitlab has much lower uptime than github.

by CJefferson 9y ago

Silhouette 9y ago
I don't know about GitHub or GitLab, but in my entire professional career, I think my total downtime due to failures in locally hosted Git repos is zero. Likewise I don't recall ever having a problem due to locally hosted bug trackers or code review systems. This stuff isn't hard, and we've been able to do it reliably for a very long time. What certainly has wasted a horrible amount of my time in recent years is working around build systems and package managers that are so badly designed that not only do they have a dependency on some online repository in the first instance, they also make it difficult or impossible to download and cache those dependencies in a supported way so that you can have 100% reproducible builds with nothing but locally hosted resources. Surely this is just about the most basic requirement for a robust software development process?
eddieroger 9y ago
Since you're looking to collect anecdata, I've had 100% uptime from my self-hosted GitLab instance, which has been online for about a year. GitHub may be on par with that, but it's hard to beat 100%.
- Xoros 9y ago
  Just curious : don't you apply updates ? I self host my gitlab and when there's an update it goes down for several minutes (well actually I don't know if it's unusable, haven't tried, but with the backup and the updates, it's long) I'm the only one working on it, so that's not a problem for me. Still, it takes time.
  - eddieroger 9y ago
    I must have transposed "unexpected" downtime in my head. Yes, I update the box and installation periodically, and yeah, that is time that my GitLab environment is not available, so I guess it's not 100%, but like you I am the only person using it, so it's effectively 100%

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I really want you to produce evidence for that. Everyone I know who selfhosts gitlab has much lower uptime than github.

by CJefferson 9y ago

I really want you to produce evidence for that. Everyone I know who selfhosts gitlab has much lower uptime than github.

Silhouette 9y ago
I don't know about GitHub or GitLab, but in my entire professional career, I think my total downtime due to failures in locally hosted Git repos is zero. Likewise I don't recall ever having a problem due to locally hosted bug trackers or code review systems. This stuff isn't hard, and we've been able to do it reliably for a very long time. What certainly has wasted a horrible amount of my time in recent years is working around build systems and package managers that are so badly designed that not only do they have a dependency on some online repository in the first instance, they also make it difficult or impossible to download and cache those dependencies in a supported way so that you can have 100% reproducible builds with nothing but locally hosted resources. Surely this is just about the most basic requirement for a robust software development process?
eddieroger 9y ago
Since you're looking to collect anecdata, I've had 100% uptime from my self-hosted GitLab instance, which has been online for about a year. GitHub may be on par with that, but it's hard to beat 100%.
- Xoros 9y ago
  Just curious : don't you apply updates ? I self host my gitlab and when there's an update it goes down for several minutes (well actually I don't know if it's unusable, haven't tried, but with the backup and the updates, it's long) I'm the only one working on it, so that's not a problem for me. Still, it takes time.
  - eddieroger 9y ago
    I must have transposed "unexpected" downtime in my head. Yes, I update the box and installation periodically, and yeah, that is time that my GitLab environment is not available, so I guess it's not 100%, but like you I am the only person using it, so it's effectively 100%