| ▲ | st3fan 6 hours ago | |
Great when a company goes out of business and the domains are dangling. Next one to scoop it up takes over source code that others new depend on. We've seen this many times already in other ecosystems. It is a very bad situation. It is bad advice to move your packages under your own domain. You will never be as good as Microsoft to keep paying for the domain. There are no guarantees in life but I do guarantee you that when you go out of business, that domain is the last thing you will think about. | ||
| ▲ | epwr 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
Thinking this through, using my domain might actually be much less risky than using a host's. If Gitlab closes down, and someone else buys the domain, then I'm forced to make a massive refactor with little notice. If I own the domain, I'm likely to continue to owning it until I shut down my company. At which point, no one is likely to be running my code. Possibly different if I was developing an open source library or something, but either way there's risk and need to be thoughtful of the risk versus impact. | ||
| ▲ | someonebaggy 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Well, actually you don't download from GitHub - you download from the central mirror proxy operated by Google, and that will always return the same package given the same versioned reference, even if the original source differs from it. | ||