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Because my GitLab self-hosted instance is up currently and theirs isn't.

And the next time your is down and their is up, are you suddenly going to arrive at the opposite conclusion?

Without numbers, I don't see how you can make any decent conclusion at all.

My GitLab server has at least beaten the GitHub down average so yes I'm feeling pretty good about it.

Well those are numbers, so it seems like there's more to your reasons than you're letting on.

When our server is down, I know why. Out of Memory, Storage is full. Service is down. We can do something about it. If a hosted service is down there is nothing to do but wait.

> Out of Memory, Storage is full. Service is down.

Is that all you have seen? I have seen many self hosted services fail in our company and the answer is almost rarely any of these simple things but complex things like data loss, data corruption, random restarts, network partition, configuration sync issues etc. That is why companies pay other companies for critical things like gitlab even when self hosting.

Does that actually impact your bottom line at the end of the year?

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