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They do mention that hosted GitLab is quite slow, so they strongly encourage you to host your own.

by grrowl 11y ago

scaryclam 11y ago
Self hosted gitlab is also slow unfortunately. I introduced gitlab to my company as a replacement for gitosis. It's been ok but we're looking to move to gogs.io which is a lot less clunky and slow. If gitlab really want traction, they need to fix their software to be on par with the quality of other open source offerings.
- chappi42 11y ago
  On what system (resources) are you running gitlab? In my experience it is not slow. I also run a gogs instance; great for the modest resource requirements but by far no match in features and look. Both make sense imho and do not overlap much.
  - mayhew 11y ago
    I don't use GitLab but after browsing the source code on their official site[1] I couldn't help but notice how slow it is. [1] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/tree/master https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/tree/master
    - sytse 11y ago
      I agree it is too slow. We're working on Git speedups in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/12443 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/12443
- girvo 11y ago
  Gogs is super quick, well designed and powerful. If it has all the features you require, I highly recommend it. Rolling updates were quite simple, swap nginx from one Docker container to another and you're good to go.
  - justinclift 11y ago
    That's good to hear. I've been meaning to look at Gogs again, after having first played with it in it's early days (before pull requests were available). Sounds like it's usable now. :)
- sytse 11y ago
  I agree that GitLab should be faster. For GitLab 8.5 we made a large number of speed improvements https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/operations/issues/42#note_3697234 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/operations/issues/42#note_3697...
sytse 11y ago
We recently greatly increased the speed of .com https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/operations/issues/42 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/operations/issues/42 and because of this I removed the notice from https://about.gitlab.com/gitlab-com/ https://about.gitlab.com/gitlab-com/ We can still do better on speed and will continue to make it faster.

They do mention that hosted GitLab is quite slow, so they strongly encourage you to host your own.

by grrowl 11y ago

They do mention that hosted GitLab is quite slow, so they strongly encourage you to host your own.

Self hosted gitlab is also slow unfortunately. I introduced gitlab to my company as a replacement for gitosis. It's been ok but we're looking to move to gogs.io which is a lot less clunky and slow. If gitlab really want traction, they need to fix their software to be on par with the quality of other open source offerings.

chappi42 11y ago
On what system (resources) are you running gitlab? In my experience it is not slow. I also run a gogs instance; great for the modest resource requirements but by far no match in features and look. Both make sense imho and do not overlap much.
- mayhew 11y ago
  I don't use GitLab but after browsing the source code on their official site[1] I couldn't help but notice how slow it is. [1] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/tree/master https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/tree/master
  - sytse 11y ago
    I agree it is too slow. We're working on Git speedups in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/12443 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/12443
girvo 11y ago
Gogs is super quick, well designed and powerful. If it has all the features you require, I highly recommend it. Rolling updates were quite simple, swap nginx from one Docker container to another and you're good to go.
- justinclift 11y ago
  That's good to hear. I've been meaning to look at Gogs again, after having first played with it in it's early days (before pull requests were available). Sounds like it's usable now. :)
sytse 11y ago
I agree that GitLab should be faster. For GitLab 8.5 we made a large number of speed improvements https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/operations/issues/42#note_3697234 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/operations/issues/42#note_3697...

sytse 11y ago

We recently greatly increased the speed of .com https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/operations/issues/42 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/operations/issues/42 and because of this I removed the notice from https://about.gitlab.com/gitlab-com/ https://about.gitlab.com/gitlab-com/ We can still do better on speed and will continue to make it faster.