8 ms·
perhaps a good time to reconsider depending on a third party for your important services to deploy?
by andygmb 11y ago
perhaps a good time to reconsider depending on a third party for your important services to deploy?
- mohsinhijazee 11y agoYes, but these decisions aren't under me plus setting up a github kind of thing is way too time consuming with all the features that we're used to now.
- andygmb 11y agoUnderstandable, but surely the potential disruption if github was to go down for a long time or indefinitely would be more than setting up a local git server that you control?
- jballanc 11y agoA GitLab droplet on Digital Ocean should run you only $10/month and literally sets up in ~10 min.
- netheril96 11y agoWhat makes the servers of digital ocean safer than github?
- jballanc 11y agoThey're not GitHub. i.e. The chance of GitHub and your GitLab instance on DO going down simultaneously is very slim. Spend an extra $10/month and you can set up another DO server in another data-center, and reduce the odds of simultaneous failure even further.
- danellis 11y agoThen you've just shifted the problem from GitHub being down to a VPS you've spent 10 minutes maintaining being down.
- lttlrck 11y agoMaybe now would be a good time to point out the downsides of that decision to whoever made it.
- acdha 11y agoSetting up a GitHub alternative is quite expensive but if you're just making your deployment system more robust it doesn't need to be more time consuming as having a server which you can SSH to.
- shocks 11y agoIt is likely that GH have a better uptime than the parent's services.
- allthetime 11y agoIt is likely that the parent's services would be up while GH is down.