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Those aren't necessarily mutually exclusive though. The Git hosts could also provide their releases by seeding them as an option.

We've had a few users complain that they had issues downloading large files from Github -- either S3 was blocked alltogether (China) or just very slow (Australia). That was a couple of years ago, don't know what the situation is like today.

I think offering BT as an alternative would be a good idea, especially for downloads > 100MB.

Yep came to say the same, because a lot of software is already hosted in a lower friction way by GitHub and similar. So unless you have a need/want to host it yourself and maybe benefit from the optimizations then why bother?

You can add the web URL seed to the torrent, pretty cool feature.