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So I can totally see cloud not being able to handle the new AI scale", "context": "", "use_case": "org git hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub"}, {"id": 789309360, "item_id": 49331835, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49331835", "by": "vehemenz", "date": "2026-08-17", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "My org's GitHub Enterprise never goes down.", "excerpt": "My org's GitHub Enterprise never goes down. The feature set is almost the same, though it lags a few months behind. 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Ive been dreading the move to GitHub.com and it was worse than I expected.", "context": "ran a large GHE deployment", "use_case": "self-hosted code hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "GitHub Actions Is Down"}, {"id": 787226784, "item_id": 49201674, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49201674", "by": "tressure", "date": "2026-08-06", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "For us this was a no-brainer", "excerpt": "We have set up a new enterprise and are migrating to GHE. For us this was a no-brainer; we get our own isolated environment, Enterprise Managed Users with Entra OIDC provisioning and Github Copilot in EU data residency. https://eu.githubstatus.com/posts/dashboard looks pretty good to me. We will still keep our github.com enterprise around for public repositories. 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