It's not going to be more reliable probably, especially if you are trying to host a app with tens of services talking to each other. Scale/load might make a dif

It's not going to be more reliable probably, especially if you are trying to host a app with tens of services talking to each other. Scale/load might make a difference sometimes. I'm thinking github's recent issues here. But I wouldn't want to self-host github/gitlab, that would become a full time job probably :) If we decided github was not reliable enough, I'd just make sure we would not be dependend on it for normal work and maybe run my own git server and mirror it to GH. I am however a proponent of self-hosting open source things you could get as a managed service. I.e databases, elastic search, redis etc. Provided you have the expertise to do that and benifit from it. For example, I used to run a redis setup that would failover in <5s on crashes and with basically 0 downtime for upgrades etc. Now we use ElastiCache and an upgrade will cause serveral minutes of downtime. I haven't had redis crash ever, but I have had elasticache & rds instances dissapear. Sometimes failover works, sometimes not and you have little to no wayt ot find out what is going on.