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  • I get the feeling that everyone else has an internet connections which is up 100% of the time, infinitely fast and uncapped... Other than that, most large companies' schedules are such that even a small delay / disruption in development or releases would cost more than running your own VCS, with redundancy. Commented Oct 3, 2012 at 8:27
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    @DanielB - Part of the reason for the explosion in hosted VCS solutions is the move from Centralised VCS to Distributed VCS - you don't need to be connected all of the time, only when you want to push/pull. Even if your Internet is down you can push/pull with peers on your local network rather than going through bitbucket/github or even push/pull to a memory stick if your local network is down (I've had to do this!) - such is the power and flexibility of using a DVCS. Commented Oct 3, 2012 at 14:16
  • @MarkBooth I realise that (I use them myself), but I wouldn't want to coordinate that in a pinch. All I'm saying is that in a country where internet is quite slow, often down, and very expensive, a hosted solution isn't the most attractive, especially considering how trivial it is to set up a git / Mercurial box. Commented Oct 3, 2012 at 17:41