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I'm looking to self-host a GitHub alt on a cheap Linux VPS for personal use. Any rec?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I wouldn't self host any git unless it was unimportant. Too easy to dick up disks.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well thats what backups are for, but may be start with a mirror or with unimportant stuff for at least a year ;) Also proprietary service can delete your data, too. This happens especially when you are using the generous free tier and they decide to make more money. See Evernote, Gitlab, Heroku…

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

🙄 if I had a dime for every time I've heard an engineer say I got this for backups...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well guess what. They say that cause they're damn right.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago

Whatever you say lol

[–] mayoi 1 points 1 year ago

Every single relevant engineer working in a relevant company puts backups on company owned disks, not somewhere in "cloud".

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You wouldn't host anything important without doing it properly.

That should be obvious, man.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

Not even remotely close to true. Services are mostly half assed. Doing them correctly is time consuming and expensive.