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If you no longer want/need the social aspects of GitHub, you can just move to GitLab. Much more affordable and you can self host it yourself. We have an on prem
by bad_user 11y ago
If you no longer want/need the social aspects of GitHub, you can just move to GitLab. Much more affordable and you can self host it yourself. We have an on premise GitLab installation. Besides the rare upgrade, it's pretty hands off. And it's costing us $0 in licensing fees for over 60 users ;-)
- raphinou 11y agoI started using gitlab.com for that reason, but I will not stay there because it is too slow, to the point it is very annoying.
- sytse 11y agoI'm sorry GitLab.com is slow, we're working to improve the speed in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/operations/issues/42 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/operations/issues/42 and https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/operations/issues/1 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/operations/issues/1
- taspeotis 11y agoI looked at GitLab, it seems to come off second best in terms of features [1]. [1] https://www.visualstudio.com/get-started/overview-of-get-started-tasks-vs https://www.visualstudio.com/get-started/overview-of-get-sta... Hard to argue with free though, if that's what you're looking for.
- bad_user 11y agoI've always found VSTS to be at the same time expensive, bloated and missing essential functionality. I think the mentality of .NET / Microsoft developers is strange. By following Microsoft's lead, wherever that may take you, you're missing out and you don't even know what :-P
- vtbassmatt 11y agoI'm a PM on VSTS. If you're willing to share what we're missing and what's bloated, I'd love to hear it. mattc@xbox.com or a reply here would be much appreciated. Thanks!
- sytse 11y agoWhat features are you missing in GitLab?
- Etheryte 11y agoAny company that has a sysadmin should simply host their own GitLab.
- therealmarv 11y agoalternative, written in go and using way less moving components and resources is https://gogs.io https://gogs.io It's lighter but also lighter in features than Gitlab.
- pilif 11y ago> Besides the rare upgrade, it's pretty hands off rare upgrade? They release every 4 weeks and often the update is absolutely mandatory due to various RCE vulnerabilities. Github would need to become much more expensive before it would be cheaper to use in-house gitlab.
- tedmiston 11y agoWe self-host GitLab as well for ~20 users and are very happy with it. We install every incremental update, which GitLab publishes very frequently -- weekly or several times a month. They are always seamless. The GitLab team is working so hard. https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/blob/master/CHANGELOG https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/blob/master/CHANGELO...
- sytse 11y agoThanks tedmiston!