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At a scale of Github’s it’s highly unlikely that this would be a cost effective maneuver - see Gitlab’s effort to move off of cloud providers as an example. The
by SOLAR_FIELDS 9y ago
At a scale of Github’s it’s highly unlikely that this would be a cost effective maneuver - see Gitlab’s effort to move off of cloud providers as an example. There comes a point where you get so big that it no longer makes sense to use third party hosting. Dropbox is another example of this.
- manigandham 9y agoGitlab isn’t moving: https://about.gitlab.com/2017/03/02/why-we-are-not-leaving-the-cloud/ https://about.gitlab.com/2017/03/02/why-we-are-not-leaving-t... Dropbox was primarily about moving storage off S3 which makes sense given their business.
- lwf 9y agoDropbox has run compute* in its own datacenters since 2008 or so. *: That is, work that does not interact heavily with content