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Github is down a few hours per month but it has never lost data. Work doesn't grind to a halt because your git host is down. So really, Github still provides a

• rvz 3y ago
  > Work doesn't grind to a halt because your git host is down. When you cannot push your critical change to master on GitHub or run your GitHub Action, then it does grind work to a halt, as it has done with the many commenters here. > So really, Github still provides a lot more value than self hosting. Centralizing everything to GitHub is much more riskier than self-hosting given the number of times GitHub has fallen over or had an 'incident'. > But sure, keep evangelizing and talking down to people who prefer it to self-hosting, I'm sure it will accomplish your goal. My point is self-proving every month and week that something in GitHub goes down or has an incident. I'll be expecting you to complain again once it falls over in a month's time at the latest.
• maxbond 3y ago
  I've been an incident responder where the incident was, "We promised a customer that changes would go out today, but GitHub is down, and thus our CI/CD is also down." It definitely does matter when GitHub goes down.