I can't read the entirety of this article[1] because it's paywalled, but it looks like they ran their own servers:
> GitHub is currently hosted on the company’s own hardware, centrally located in Virginia
I imagine this predates their acquisition from Microsoft. Honestly, given how often Github seems to be down compared to the level of dependency people have on it, this might be one of the few cases where I might have understood if Microsoft embraced and extended a bit harder.
Fair enough, my Azure experience is minimal enough that maybe I shouldn't make assumptions about whether this would improve things. That being said, I do think there's merit in the idea that if Microsoft is going to be able to solve this problem, they probably should try to solve it just once, and in a general way, rather than just for Github?
> GitHub is currently hosted on the company’s own hardware, centrally located in Virginia
I imagine this predates their acquisition from Microsoft. Honestly, given how often Github seems to be down compared to the level of dependency people have on it, this might be one of the few cases where I might have understood if Microsoft embraced and extended a bit harder.
[1]: https://www.theverge.com/tech/796119/microsoft-github-azure-...