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mschuetz | on: GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability
Except anything I'd self host would be down much more often. I've hardly ever actually experienced down time issues with github when I needed it.
thecatapps | parent | next
I've never understood this argument. Even if self-hosted things were offline more often (which I've never found to be the case, I've had Forgejo + runners running for a year now with no downtime), the real benefit is that you yourself can work to bring it back online when it does, rather than waiting on a large, slow-moving organization to figure out what slopped PR caused their global service serving ungodly amounts of RPS to go offline again.
onraglanroad | root | parent
I wrote my reply before yours appeared but it's basically agreeing. A simple Forgejo hasn't given me any grief. It really seems simpler.

Maybe they're hosting in us-east-1 though :)

jeltz | parent | next
Then you would be exceptionally bad at selfhosting as Github has like one nine of uptime.
rachr | root | parent
It still has 2 9s according to the status page, but it is approaching Claude levels of downtime. :(
Nextgrid | parent | next
Hard disagree.

Self-hosting a service like GitHub that operates at GitHub scale is difficult.

Self-hosting a service like GitHub that operates at the typical small/medium company's scale is trivial.

A single machine (with separate runners for CI) will cover many companies' needs. It being a single machine eliminates a lot of the complexity and failure modes associated with a distributed system and makes backups/restores/maintenance easy.