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Our on-prem GH enterprise hasn't gone down in the last year. Additionally any potentially disruptive work like upgrades etc can be scheduled outside of busines

Our on-prem GH enterprise hasn't gone down in the last year. Additionally any potentially disruptive work like upgrades etc can be scheduled outside of business hours so that they won't impact users

DougN7 3y ago
I self-host Subversion and haven’t had an unplanned outage in more than a decade :) (almost two decades?)
- COMMENT___ 3y ago
  How’s your experience with Subversion? What kind of content do store in SVN, BTW?
  - DougN7 3y ago
    I really like it. I keep source code, 3rd party libraries, images, binary build output and installers. I can easily go back and debug and crash a customer ever sees because I have all the binaries and debugging files.
BossingAround 3y ago
In general, paying GH tends to be much cheaper than employing a team of SREs that'll keep your on-prem Git instance up and running 24/7 (esp. including things like backups, disaster recovery, and similar good practices necessary for any enterprise-ready SaaS). Something tells me that if you can schedule upgrades "outside of business hours", your scale is small (because in a global company, it's always "business hours" somewhere), which makes the cost argument even more prominent.
- bogantech 3y ago
  You don't employ a team of SRE's with the sole day-job of git maintenance though, your existing SRE/sysadmin team manages it. And any large business will already be doing Backups, DR etc for their existing systems.
  - joshspankit 3y ago
    > any large business will already be doing Backups, DR etc for their existing systems Any? Are you sure?
    - deserialized 3y ago
      Lol don't crush their optimism, the real world will do it for you in due time
      - bogantech 3y ago
        Been doing it for 20 years so far. If you work in a large business that needs git but doesn't have backups and has no disaster recovery plan at all you're going to have much bigger things to worry about than a git repo being offline.
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Our on-prem GH enterprise hasn't gone down in the last year. Additionally any potentially disruptive work like upgrades etc can be scheduled outside of business hours so that they won't impact users

DougN7 3y ago

I self-host Subversion and haven’t had an unplanned outage in more than a decade :) (almost two decades?)

COMMENT___ 3y ago
How’s your experience with Subversion? What kind of content do store in SVN, BTW?
- DougN7 3y ago
  I really like it. I keep source code, 3rd party libraries, images, binary build output and installers. I can easily go back and debug and crash a customer ever sees because I have all the binaries and debugging files.

BossingAround 3y ago

In general, paying GH tends to be much cheaper than employing a team of SREs that'll keep your on-prem Git instance up and running 24/7 (esp. including things like backups, disaster recovery, and similar good practices necessary for any enterprise-ready SaaS). Something tells me that if you can schedule upgrades "outside of business hours", your scale is small (because in a global company, it's always "business hours" somewhere), which makes the cost argument even more prominent.

bogantech 3y ago
You don't employ a team of SRE's with the sole day-job of git maintenance though, your existing SRE/sysadmin team manages it. And any large business will already be doing Backups, DR etc for their existing systems.
- joshspankit 3y ago
  > any large business will already be doing Backups, DR etc for their existing systems Any? Are you sure?
  - deserialized 3y ago
    Lol don't crush their optimism, the real world will do it for you in due time
    - bogantech 3y ago
      Been doing it for 20 years so far. If you work in a large business that needs git but doesn't have backups and has no disaster recovery plan at all you're going to have much bigger things to worry about than a git repo being offline.
      - deleted 3y ago
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