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Or GitLab? I really don't understand why anyone would misuse Dropbox as a Git server...

by m4r71n 10y ago

sytse 10y ago
The OP seems to be interested in a SaaS (alternative for GitHub). For the people that think you always have to install GitLab, instead of running your own GitLab server you can also use GitLab.com with unlimited projects and collaborators, see https://about.gitlab.com/gitlab-com/ https://about.gitlab.com/gitlab-com/
- oblio 10y ago
  Has Gitlab done any work on the high availability front? I remember reading a while back that gitlab.com was hosted on 2 servers, or something like that.
  - quicksilver03 10y ago
    They definitely stated that gitlab.com was running on one single server (plus a spare): https://about.gitlab.com/2015/01/03/the-hardware-that-powers-100k-git-repos/ https://about.gitlab.com/2015/01/03/the-hardware-that-powers... https://about.gitlab.com/2015/03/09/moving-all-your-data/ https://about.gitlab.com/2015/03/09/moving-all-your-data/ It looks like this is no longer the case: https://about.gitlab.com/2015/06/04/gitlab-dot-com-outage-on-2015-05-29/ https://about.gitlab.com/2015/06/04/gitlab-dot-com-outage-on... I haven't been able to determine if they're still storing the git repositories on NFS: https://about.gitlab.com/2015/09/01/gitlab-dot-com-outage-on-2015-09-01/ https://about.gitlab.com/2015/09/01/gitlab-dot-com-outage-on... but if that's the case, I would be extremely nervous about the integrity and stability of their platform. I've had too many bad experiences with NFS mounts failing and general instability that I don't want to deploy it anymore.
    - sytse 10y ago
      We have many servers now, see https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/blog-posts/issues/214 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/blog-posts/issues/214 We're still on NFS but are looking into Ceph https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/operations/issues/1 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/operations/issues/1
  - YorickPeterse 10y ago
    We're currently using 20 Azure instances to host GitLab.com. Git data is stored on an NFS server though I can't recall the exact setup from the top of my head.

Or GitLab? I really don't understand why anyone would misuse Dropbox as a Git server...

by m4r71n 10y ago

Or GitLab? I really don't understand why anyone would misuse Dropbox as a Git server...

sytse 10y ago

The OP seems to be interested in a SaaS (alternative for GitHub). For the people that think you always have to install GitLab, instead of running your own GitLab server you can also use GitLab.com with unlimited projects and collaborators, see https://about.gitlab.com/gitlab-com/ https://about.gitlab.com/gitlab-com/

oblio 10y ago
Has Gitlab done any work on the high availability front? I remember reading a while back that gitlab.com was hosted on 2 servers, or something like that.
- quicksilver03 10y ago
  They definitely stated that gitlab.com was running on one single server (plus a spare): https://about.gitlab.com/2015/01/03/the-hardware-that-powers-100k-git-repos/ https://about.gitlab.com/2015/01/03/the-hardware-that-powers... https://about.gitlab.com/2015/03/09/moving-all-your-data/ https://about.gitlab.com/2015/03/09/moving-all-your-data/ It looks like this is no longer the case: https://about.gitlab.com/2015/06/04/gitlab-dot-com-outage-on-2015-05-29/ https://about.gitlab.com/2015/06/04/gitlab-dot-com-outage-on... I haven't been able to determine if they're still storing the git repositories on NFS: https://about.gitlab.com/2015/09/01/gitlab-dot-com-outage-on-2015-09-01/ https://about.gitlab.com/2015/09/01/gitlab-dot-com-outage-on... but if that's the case, I would be extremely nervous about the integrity and stability of their platform. I've had too many bad experiences with NFS mounts failing and general instability that I don't want to deploy it anymore.
  - sytse 10y ago
    We have many servers now, see https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/blog-posts/issues/214 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/blog-posts/issues/214 We're still on NFS but are looking into Ceph https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/operations/issues/1 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/operations/issues/1
- YorickPeterse 10y ago
  We're currently using 20 Azure instances to host GitLab.com. Git data is stored on an NFS server though I can't recall the exact setup from the top of my head.