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Another reminder that a self hosted git repository would have more uptime than GitHub and centralizing everything to GitHub was a very bad idea. [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22867803

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That depends entirely on where you host it. My PC has more downtime than GitHub does. It's only up enough to push to it ~75% of the time (I do use it as a ssh remote fwiw, but most projects get pushed to a VM that only starts on login, and my PC itself isn't always running).

If you're working on an oss project (ie distributing source anyways), probably better a good idea to mirror to GitHub as a backup anyways, let Microsoft pay for backup+bandwidth for you.

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