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GitHub Has an Availability Problem. Is It Time to Look Elsewhere?
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this post was submitted on 17 Aug 2026
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As a solo dev, working from home, the real reason I use Github is for off site backup.
Back in the SVN days we hosted our own server for a bunch of years, then moved to one of the many paid SVN hosts that existed.
I think I'm going to spin up another VPS and self host Forgejo at this point (or see if I can add it to one of my existing servers).
Yeah, for individuals it works best if you host your own locally or use a cloud as you said, then use push mirroring to backup to github or one of the other big forges. Gets you 98% of the utility with minimal cost.
great thing about git is that you can just set up a gitzillion different repos and push to them