My personal website has been hosted on Github pages for just shy of 3 years now. In that time, the service has been fantastically reliable and fast. As I have slowly added features to the website, however, the resulting code gradually getting larger has made it so that fixing breakages and adding more improvements has become untenable.
I’ve been gradually using Gitlab more over Github in the past year for my git needs. Access to private repositories as a free user is something that has come in handy for my purposes, mainly backing up research data analyses and writing. They too offer a project-hosting solution in the form of Gitlab pages.
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