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Most of startups knows that if they need to succeed it must be self-hosted somewhere. I'm not talking just for sources and repos. About servers too.

• marcinzm 6y ago
  In my experience, most small startups, especially successful ones, rely on SaaS for as much as possible. The goal is to do as little as possible themselves.
  • jabroni_salad 6y ago
    Sure, but to the point of not even having a local copy of your source code? That just seems irresponsible.
    • marcinzm 6y ago
      A local copy helps you migrate to a new provider but that's still a lot of effort and downtime. You lose ticketing, pull requests, CI/CD pipeline, artifact storage, etc.
      • mobilio 6y ago
        You always can make a local GitLab - installation take minutes and everything is in-place. Please explain where is "lot of effort and downtime"?
  • parliament32 6y ago
    SaaS is cutting corners, plain and simple. Yes, in a startup you need to cut corners, but it will bite you in the ass eventually.
    • marcinzm 6y ago
      Everything will bite you in the ass eventually. Nothing is ideal. Everything has risks and eventual failure modes. Good business is about managing those risks rather than eliminating them.