• DarkMetatron@feddit.de
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    7 months ago

    Not everyone has his own data center with servers and a matching Internet connection in the cellar.

    • Draconic NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      7 months ago

      This is such a stupid argument considering you don’t need a fucking giant ass data center to host a tiny little git server. I’ve seen this argument time and time again, but the real reason people go with VPSes is convenience and laziness.

      I would absolutely agree with the other person that renting your own VPS is not self-hosting, not by a long shot. You could argue that you need a massive host for a large video or music platform, or even a large git platform with thousands of repos, but not for a tiny single user, single project forgejo or gitlab instance or a single static web page.

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      7 months ago

      Yeah but like not everyone has a a thousand acres either - though you dont hear shoppers at the farmers market calling themselves farmers

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        7 months ago

        It’s not even needed for a tiny single user git instance, they’re grossly over-representing the amount of resources required to host one of those.