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Comment by jdjdjdjdhy

5 months ago

Self hosting a public git is as cheap as it can get, since it's completely static content

Sure you might get bandwidth saturated, but that can happen with any type of content

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evantbyrne  5 months ago

It's a lot less bandwidth to serve one login screen than the entire contents of all of your source repositories to a bunch of crawlers. You can also cache that one login screen in memory.

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