Ask HN: Github or your own git server?

I'd never use Github if money was on the line, it's down all the time and source code is core competency stuff, you do it in-house. Gitosis + gitweb aren't that difficult to set up.

There's also "Gitorious" but I tried to use it once and spent two days unsuccessfully trying to get it to work.

The last two companies I've worked at both use GitHub. There are more GitHub vs. self-hosting comparisons (including mine) in this earlier thread, with a focus on security: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=936187

I'm using GitHub. It may occasionally be down, but they have a really innovative new server architecture, and once they've ironed out the problems (which I believe they've almost done), it should be as stable as a rock. Plus, it's git so you have a full clone of the repository that you can work with even while it's down.

I use it for closed source work, but I consider it mostly a backup repo. It costs me $7 a month and I feel I get enough value from the many other projects I track to make it pay for itself as a one-stop interface.