However ridiculing people who want to their control infrastructure better because they don't have the expertise or time as the guys running the railway gets old.
> And this is why you self-host on your own instance.
This was the commentary on the outage, and it's just outright wrong. Your self-hosted instances will also experience outages. That's the point I inteded to raise.
I am not denying that there different people have different needs, not everyone wants or has the time to drive either . Just that self hosting is also valid even with uptime or other concerns.
Having said that achieving better uptime is quite possible self hosting not because we are better but because we have simpler challenges than gitlab.com, poorer uptime is also quite likely if we don't know what we are doing.
Simply put, managed services doesn't mean better uptime doesn't automatically .