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Re:Investigate switching away from GitHub by hellcow on Thursday February 11, 2016 @07:18PM (#11084447)
Git can do that as well with a --bare repo on any $5 virtual server. The whole setup only takes a few minutes, and Github's doing that in the backend anyway. :)
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Re:Investigate switching away from GitHub by mbrock on Friday February 12, 2016 @02:06AM (#11085729)
Sure, but those servers will have much worse availability than GitHub, on average...
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Re:Investigate switching away from GitHub by hellcow on Friday February 12, 2016 @10:39AM (#11087920)
Then up it to $10 and host identical copies across EC2 and Linode or Digital Ocean. Set up a git hook to automatically push from your primary to your secondary server, keeping both up to date. You now have better uptime than Github (100%, more or less) for less money than Github charges and greater control.
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Re:Investigate switching away from GitHub by mbrock on Friday February 12, 2016 @12:54PM (#11089002)
Yeah, but GitHub does this for, like, a hundred thousand projects. That's a lot of repeated effort if every project is going to do this themselves. For private repositories, sure, but I'm thinking of GitHub as an infrastructure provider.
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