So everyone uses Github now, and that’s cool, because Github is awesome. But what if Github goes down, even just for a short time, and you’re sitting there trying to get your stuff deployed or whatever? You’re basically screwed. Though Github is a fantastically stable service, it does have the occasional availability hiccup and the only real solution to that problem is redundancy.

So what’s a guy (or gal) to do? Run your own private git repository somewhere else!

Here at the day job, we are slowly moving our (production) systems away from Windows and toward (Ubuntu LTS) Linux. The company has always been Windows-oriented, mostly due to the decisions of its President when it was founded, subsequent inertia, and the skillsets of the infrastructure teams. Now, though, we have an increased Linux knowledgebase in-house, we’ve started this reorientation toward PHP and other open-source products, and Linux just makes more sense.