analogsalad

It looks like the author needs to update their about page:

https://blog.plover.com/meta/about-me.html

> I may be best known for my book Higher-Order Perl, published in 2005 by Morgan Kaufmann, and for my other work in Perl. But as a programmer I consider myself uncommited to any particular language or system. As with everything else, I try to go for breadth rather than for depth.

I had no intention of ridiculing anybody, there are things that I self-host but I like to pick and choose my battles instead of a blanket "I must have control over everything" approach. My response was specifically to this comment:

> And this is why you self-host on your own instance.

This was the commentary on the outage, and it's just outright wrong. Your self-hosted instances will also experience outages. That's the point I inteded to raise.

As a customer of Gitlab, I'm satisfied with their uptime and I have no reason to believe that they can't fix these issues in good time.

Yes, I can also fix it if the server was my mine but more than likely I'll be busy doing my actual job (which does not involve fiddling with self-hosted gitlab instances) so I'll take my chances with the Gitlab engineering team. They do fix things and me being busy, asleep, sick, or travelling have no impact on their response. I intend to keep it this way.

It's full-blown sarcasm. Sorry for omitting the /s.

Indeed, I can't remember a single time where a self-hosted server crashed. They run for decades with 0 downtime.