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GitHub was just down the other day. Why would you want your personal website/portfolio to be tied to GitHub? Crazy "modern web dev" stacks are likely overkill, but that's not an argument against self-hosting.



Personal websites can be down a few days a month without a problem.


+1. Not like my $5 hosting plan has less downtime than Github. Well... maybe? Fewer moving parts perhaps. But it's not immune.


Because it's free and convenient, and other hosting providers don't magically have 100% uptime either. Not even necessarily more uptime than GitHub.


I like to think that when GitHub (or Google, or Netflix, ...) are down, I am not alone.

A few million people are holding their breath - unlike in the case of my self-hosted site where I am alone to bring it back online.


How is it "tied"? You still have a local repo that you could deploy somewhere else.




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