Because GitHub has load balances that direct traffic occasionally through a server hosted under Chinese jurisdiction.

Where the hell did you get that from? Do you have a source for that?

I feel like this link is a scam itself lol

There are still plans with data caps in Belgium, this is limited to the “cheapest” plans though at about 30 EUR a month

Ah thanks, I couldn’t find anything about it. I run all my stuff on a server behind a Tailscale network, so nothing is accessible without VPN access. I thought it might need connections from other instances.

Do bad thing, say you handled bad thing wrongly, hope people forget bad thing.

How is self-hosting in regards to resources (disk space, memory, network etc)? And does it need to be public?