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Absolutely agree! I cannot fathom why people are still actively supporting GitHub. Even if you ignore the ethical reasons, which if you are an open source dev

• Touche 11y ago
  gitlab.com is dog slow and my code is too important to risk self hosting.
  • ywecur 11y ago
    Deploy on Heroku
    • edelans 11y ago
      Installing it on Heroku is not an option because their containers do not allow the disk access GitLab needs to store and manage the git repo's. source: https://www.quora.com/How-much-of-a-threat-is-GitLab-to-GitHub-Enterprise https://www.quora.com/How-much-of-a-threat-is-GitLab-to-GitH...
      • ywecur 11y ago
        Alrigh, sorry. I didn't know.
  • sytse 11y ago
    GitLab.com indeed is dog slow, we're sorry and we're working on improving that Q1 2016 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/operations/issues https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/operations/issues
    • booop 11y ago
      So happy to see you acknowledge the performance issues. You'd do everyone a great favor when you make it happen!
  • throwaway999888 11y ago
    So host on multiple sites?
  • bsder 11y ago
    Wait, are you telling me that every git repository isn't a full copy of the codebase that you could recover from? Really? I find that hard to believe, but it makes me glad I use Mercurial if that's the case.
    • neandrake 11y ago
      Git repositories do have a full copy of the codebase (unless using some large-file management, same issue with largefiles extension for hg). But gitlab/github are more than just git repositories -- issue tracking, discussions, wiki, etc. One version control which includes most of this as part of the repository is fossil, http://fossil-scm.org http://fossil-scm.org