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The little bit of downtime on GitHub is still much better for me to have to maintain my own gitlab. GitHub is still a no brainer for me.
by Helitioo 4y ago
The little bit of downtime on GitHub is still much better for me to have to maintain my own gitlab.
GitHub is still a no brainer for me.
- dahfizz 4y agoThis is like the third downtime in a month. Hosting your own infra is easier than people think, but it is completely trivial if weekly downtime is the expectation.
- Helitioo 4y agoI have been on both sides. GitHub downtime is something I can just tell managment and prepare things to put it out of high critical path. Like I would not pull images from GitHub on my k8s cluster. Gitlab works absolutely but you know I don't want to do gitlab updates, do backup, do regular backup/restore test, deleting backups etc. I prefer to create new things.
- dncornholio 4y agoMaintaining gitlab has been nothing more than sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install gitlab-ee. Their releases often have security vulnerabilities though. But other than that, even the community edition is packed with features, it's a no brainer for me ;)
- Helitioo 4y agoThe security issues in the last year were shocking to me. You also need to do backups, try restore, you might need to announce a maintenance window. And for what? Getting stress from mgmnt when it breaks? With a GitHub downtime that's just it. No one cares, everyone accepts it as given.
- mac-chaffee 4y agoAgreed. The people saying self-hosting is easy would do well to read this: https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/RunningServersNotTrivial https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/RunningSer...