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"You can still create a Digital Ocean droplet, Docker container, or VM Image - and do the same thing (upload & forget)."

Wouldn't it be easier - and free - to "upload and forget" onto github ?

If someone had a software release, why wouldn't they choose github to be the release point - even if it's just a single tarball ?

Are there costs involved in hosting binaries/tarfiles on github ?



Can you clarify what you are driving at with these questions? First off, a lot of people prefer hosted source repositories other than github (e.g. hub.darcs.net, gitlab.com, My Own Private Server). Github naturally imposes various limitations on their "free" plans.


I'm not getting at anything. I'm genuinely curious.

Personally, I self-host everything on my personal www homepage.

If I did not self-host everything, I assume I would put it up on github, right ?


At the risk of prolonging a pointless line of discussion: what does github have to do with anything in this context?




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