> Spinning up your own git server is not a huge effort though even for a startup. At a previous job we self hosted Git and it worked fairly well. At my current

> Spinning up your own git server is not a huge effort though even for a startup. At a previous job we self hosted Git and it worked fairly well. At my current job we use GitHub and while we could migrate away, it would hurt. Personally, I think GitHub's value is more about the fact that it integrates so well with so many other services. Without GitHub we would lose: - Most of our PR/ Code Review flow - Integration with Pivotal (our ticketing/ story system) - Integration with our Travis server for CI - Integration with our hosting service for automated deployment. All of this stuff can be done independent of GitHub, but most of it takes a lot of time and effort you could be spent delivering the product you are trying to ship. You also lose a lot of flexibility.