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yesterday I couldn't set up a bunch of servers that I needed provisioned and cloudflare's API had an outage.

Today if I were using github, my day would be wasted again.

For all the talk about companies trying to cut out on meetings by putting a sticker price to it (this 30 minute meeting could've been an email and cost $2000), at what point do we start saying "this outage could've been avoided and cost us $5k"?

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Avoided how, by spending $50,000?

Times that by the the number of external systems you rely on and you start seeing why we outsource that stuff in the first place.

Hosting and running my gitea server costs me less money than a github subscription, and I spend less time at all compared to the time GH had outages this year.

And I can take part of the "savings" and contribute to gitea's further development.

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