GitHub has been having enough outages lately that people are starting to ask whether it makes sense to look elsewhere.
Ever since Github got acquired by ...
Yeah, for individuals it works best if you host your own locally or use a cloud as you said, then use push mirroring to backup to github or one of the other big forges. Gets you 98% of the utility with minimal cost.
As a solo dev, working from home, the real reason I use Github is for off site backup.
Back in the SVN days we hosted our own server for a bunch of years, then moved to one of the many paid SVN hosts that existed.
I think I’m going to spin up another VPS and self host Forgejo at this point (or see if I can add it to one of my existing servers).
great thing about git is that you can just set up a gitzillion different repos and push to them
Yeah, for individuals it works best if you host your own locally or use a cloud as you said, then use push mirroring to backup to github or one of the other big forges. Gets you 98% of the utility with minimal cost.