> maintaining and updating your servers sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade > updating the free software sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dis

> maintaining and updating your servers sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade > updating the free software sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade > backups We setup a cronjob that backs up the server > recovering from backups in situations where your servers fail? We are able to recover in a reasonable timeframe. We take occasional server snapshots, and in the case of the machine completely going dark we could spin up one of those snapshots, dist-upgrade, and apply our git / Gitlab back and be back to normal. Your concerns are good concerns for big companies. For small companies who don't need 99.99% SLA, running git/Gitlab on your own server is tremendously more reasonable than Github's paid plans.