I've noticed this and it's bad, in my opinion. Is it practical to mirror critical software elsewhere? Git and proprietary hosts aren't something I know a ton about. I've used basic Git and GitLab for my personal projects but that's it.

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I mirror the code I rely on and like, except for things that are just too large my servers get upset. Most of the code here is used by my own applications. I vendor most of my dependencies for this reason as well, but for other apps I just use this works. Speaking of which, I need to mirror more things! https://git.vaughnnugent.com/cgit/ Funny enough I think, git itself has mostly migrated to GitHub. Can't speak for development, but all the documentation links back to GitHub.
> Is it practical to mirror critical software elsewhere? To answer this specifically, yes I think it is very simple and practical if you are familiar with hosting any kind of web server. Mine just use git on a sysdtemd timer to recurse through directories I initialize and my cgit server hosts the web version. You just need a few MB of disk space, git, and a webserver to accomplish this.