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Repeated GitHub outages renew discussion of alternative git forges and self-hosting
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A Lobsters thread asks whether consistent GitHub downtime over recent months justifies migrating to alternative platforms or self-hosted solutions.
Engineers depending on GitHub for CI, collaboration, and deployment face tangible disruption from repeated outages. The discussion surfaces practical self-hosting strategies, though these sacrifice the collaboration and discoverability that centralized forges provide.
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GitHub has experienced consistent downtime over the last few months, disrupting dependent workflows.
One self-hosting approach generates static HTML for repository trees served from a personal domain.
Another approach uses a private VPS with SSH-based TUI access, avoiding web hosting entirely to reduce crawler load.
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