This is like the third downtime in a month. Hosting your own infra is easier than people think, but it is completely trivial if weekly downtime is the expectation.

I have been on both sides.

GitHub downtime is something I can just tell managment and prepare things to put it out of high critical path.

Like I would not pull images from GitHub on my k8s cluster.

Gitlab works absolutely but you know I don't want to do gitlab updates, do backup, do regular backup/restore test, deleting backups etc.

I prefer to create new things.

Maintaining gitlab has been nothing more than sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install gitlab-ee.

Their releases often have security vulnerabilities though. But other than that, even the community edition is packed with features, it's a no brainer for me ;)

The security issues in the last year were shocking to me.

You also need to do backups, try restore, you might need to announce a maintenance window.

And for what? Getting stress from mgmnt when it breaks? With a GitHub downtime that's just it. No one cares, everyone accepts it as given.

Agreed. The people saying self-hosting is easy would do well to read this: https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/RunningSer...