I meant the OP , who was making fun of self hosting, didn't mean to imply you did.
I am not denying that there different people have different needs, not everyone wants or has the time to drive either . Just that self hosting is also valid even with uptime or other concerns.
Having said that achieving better uptime is quite possible self hosting not because we are better but because we have simpler challenges than gitlab.com, poorer uptime is also quite likely if we don't know what we are doing.
Simply put, managed services doesn't mean better uptime doesn't automatically .