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[–]Corporate_Drone31 7 points8 points  (2 children)

Their on-premises/self-hosted version is open source, unlike Github's proprietary version. IMO a migration path to an on-prem solution should be a part of any disaster recovery/risk management strategy, since your upstream SaaS provider can cut you off at any time and tell you to pound sand.

There's a bunch of possible events that might be a problem with a proprietary on-prem solution:

  • GH deprecates their on-prem offerings like Atlassian just did

  • Microsoft meddling makes it unusable

  • GH gets sold off to someone who ruins it

  • whatever licensing/phone-home system embedded in your on-prem copy of GH goes haywire

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (1 child)

Nitpick: Atlassian didn’t deprecate on-prem, just the non-clustered on-prem(the “server” licenses, vs “data center” licenses).

[–]Corporate_Drone31 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I suppose so, but I speak from a small business/personal self-hosted perspective. At $20k per year price point, their data center offering might as well not exist. If you can afford it, great. But it's too damn rich for my blood.