Re:Left GitLab for GitHub after today's crash
by WettowelReactor on Thursday February 02, 2017 @08:34AM
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Any time you rely on an outside provider you shift your risks around. Thinking that you eliminate risks by hosting yourself is simply not true. Whether using an outside provider increases your risks requires a case by case analysis.
Really though, this situation is just re-hashing the fact that everyone has to be careful about single points of failure. If you're screwed because a single service provider you rely on is down you need to think about increasing redundancy. This goes for absolutely everything whether the service is for DNS, VPSes, or version control repositories.