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Why I would use it instead of GitLab?

• chii 9y ago
  why is there ever more then one or anything? it's competition, and that's always a good thing​,
  • neves 9y ago
    Sure, but I'm not asking about the right to use it. I'm in a technical community where maybe someone can explain me why I should try it instead of going on with my company successful utilization of GitLab. I believe it must have some advantages and I'd like to know about them.
  • fiatjaf 9y ago
    There's also https://github.com/gogits/gogs https://github.com/gogits/gogs
    • newsat13 9y ago
      And https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/ https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/
• fiatjaf 9y ago
  Well, GitLab is slower than my pet tortoise.
  • sytse 9y ago
    Are you talking about GitLab self installed or the SaaS? GitLab.com is slow and we're working to improve that in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&state=all&label_name[]=performance https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues?scope=all&utf... and https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/infrastructure/issues/947 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/infrastructure/issues/947 GitLab self installed should be fast with enough memory. I don't know if Allura has a SaaS service.
    • fiatjaf 9y ago
      Sorry, I'm talking about GitLab.com. I don't use it, but anytime I visit the site suffer so much with it that the experience makes me think the worst from GitLab in general.
      • sytse 9y ago
        GitLab.com is not representative of the speed of GitLab self hosted. If anything it is making self hosted faster by surfacing scaling problems.
        • i-machine-learn 9y ago
          While that may be true, don't you see a marketing problem here? Most people would assume that Gitlab.com is representative of the speed and UX of Gitlab self hosted. It's almost like your demo site to be honest.
          • OJFord 9y ago
            Surely anyone considering self-hosting it would realise it's performance was going to depend on what they hosted it on? I don't think I would assume the free 'demo site' would be hosted on the beefiest offering available such that I could only do worse by self-hosting.
            • viraptor 9y ago
              Without actually trying it out in a self-hosted scenario (and this is a non-trivial time investment to do), you don't know if that situation is because of the scale or some constant factors. The slowness could be because of thousands of projects hosted, or because of stupid interaction with git which slows down every single page. Until you try it for yourself, it could be either. (it seems to be the former mostly)
            • chriswarbo 9y ago
              The load is probably more important than the server capabilities: I imagine gitlab.com is slow due to the sheer volume of access and the number of projects being hosted. Self-hosted instances aren't likely to a) allow random strangers to host stuff and b) attract a large population of such strangers.
  • fiatjaf 9y ago
    Well, there's another comment here saying that Allura is even slower.
  • fsiefken 9y ago
    2G on a self-hosted GitLab instance is good enough, try it!