As stated elsewhere, we are willing and do pay for those services. In fact we moved from self hosting Git (which was free) to a paid hosted solution. So we do c

As stated elsewhere, we are willing and do pay for those services. In fact we moved from self hosting Git (which was free) to a paid hosted solution. So we do currently pay for git hosting and is something I'm happy to continue to do (albeit I have no allegiances with any specific hosting providers). With regards to your first point. Yes you're right about how it's probably not in Gitlabs interest to pay for too many 9s. Maybe Gitlab initially appeared to have worse availability than their competitors because they're more open with their literature so I read more about Gitlab's problems than their competitors. But reading a bit more on Gitlab I found a document about provisioning Gitlab in HA environments, which addresses some of the points I'd been discussing.