Comment by freedomben

1 day ago

I'm not sure whether this question was asked in good faith, but is actually a damn good one.

I've looked into self hosting and git repo that has horizontal scalability, and it is indeed very difficult. I don't have the time to detail it in a comment here, but for anyone who is curious it's very informative to look at how GitLab handled this with gitaly. I've also seen some clever attempts to use object storage, though I haven't seen any of those solutions put heavily to the test.

I'd love to hear from others about ideas and approaches they've heard about or tried