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3. Maintain server

I'll gladly pay a reasonable fee for hosted services so I don't have to worry about such things.

4. put repos in dropbox folder

(5. have repo world readable when security fails)

6. Walk on eggshells as to not accidentally delete your repos chilling in userspace (everyone's had this experience at some point with Dropbox files)

Dropbox does have a limited form of version control fwiw. Select a file on the website and there's a "Previous Versions" item highlighted.

Not that I'm recommending this approach. That side, I do have GitHub repos that are also in my Dropbox, so I can collaborate with non-technical folk. It works great and haven't had a single issue with it in about 6 months of usage.

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