curious: why use own hosting rather than github?

Hugo Hörnquist hugo at lysator.liu.se
Mon Mar 30 13:20:22 CEST 2020


CGit (their web front-end to git) is developed by the same people.
https://git.zx2c4.com/cgit/

I don't know what their reasons for self-hosting. But I personally do
it to have full control over my code and my distribution. Along with
GitHub being proprietary.

-- 
hugo
On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 10:57:05AM +0200, J Rt wrote:
> I do not really see the link between the question and what you say.
> 
> Maybe I was not clear enough: why is
> 
> https://git.zx2c4.com/password-store
> 
> rather than
> 
> https://github.com/zx2c4/password-store
> 
> use for the main hosting / development workflow?
> 
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 10:47 AM <www.passwordstore.org at sjau.ch> wrote:
> >
> > You don't want the whole world to know, that you have accounts to
> >
> > Pr0n/r3dtube
> > Pr0n/pr0ntube
> > Pr0n/....
> >
> > On 30.03.20 10:43, J Rt wrote:
> > > Dear all,
> > >
> > > I am curious about why a self-hosting rather than github hosting
> > > solution was chosen for this project. Is it offering better safety /
> > > is this legacy / is it a way to keep too poor devs away? ^^ .
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > JR
> > >


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