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Re:Soft-serve: A tasty, self-hostable Git server for the com... by sdfhbdf on Monday March 27, 2023 @05:09PM (#35332668)
S3 sounds very inefficient for storing git objects. Unless you're talking converting git protocol to S3 Object Versions API which might sound like an interesting project.
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Re:Soft-serve: A tasty, self-hostable Git server for the com... by INTPenis on Monday March 27, 2023 @05:16PM (#35332765)
I only say S3 because it's a cheap type of online storage that does not require any of your own infrastructure.
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Re:Soft-serve: A tasty, self-hostable Git server for the com... by ikiris on Monday March 27, 2023 @05:46PM (#35333143)
so you want to self host via the cloud?

... why not just use the cloud at that point and skip having to roll your own everything?

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Re:Soft-serve: A tasty, self-hostable Git server for the com... by INTPenis on Monday March 27, 2023 @05:48PM (#35333167)
That's not SELF-hosting.

Self-hosting, with emphasis on the self, to me is taking it into your own hands.

Using the cloud can be very liberating these days, you can do it in a vendor agnostic way where you own all your domains, your data and can move freely between any cloud provider.

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Re:Soft-serve: A tasty, self-hostable Git server for the com... by nicoburns on Monday March 27, 2023 @06:56PM (#35333968)
There's a sense in which using the cloud isn't SELF hosting either. Although I get what you mean.
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Re:Soft-serve: A tasty, self-hostable Git server for the com... by INTPenis on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @01:03AM (#35336144)
It's even better than self-hosting on bare metal, because you can move from one vendor to another quicker using IaC.

Also more expensive of course.

To me self-hosting was always about freedom. The two arguments against self-hosting in the cloud are security and cost.

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Re:Soft-serve: A tasty, self-hostable Git server for the com... by mikepurvis on Monday March 27, 2023 @07:02PM (#35334037)
It's also a generic interface which is offered by multiple vendors (Azure, Backblaze, etc) including some on-prem options like MinIO.

I mean, on one level, a plain directory is also a generic interface, but blob storage has semantics which naturally lend themselves to replication in ways that a regular filesystem doesn't.

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