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> While I'm a big fan of their team and culture approach, we yet to see better/respected GitLab.com SLA guarantees — it still feels like they're doing too much
by kogepathic 9y ago
> While I'm a big fan of their team and culture approach, we yet to see better/respected GitLab.com SLA guarantees — it still feels like they're doing too much "testing on production".
Agreed. However, if you need more reliability than gitlab.com it's not difficult to host GitLab yourself in a VM or on bare metal.
Many companies already have their own physical servers in a DC (either colocated or leasing). Hopefully the people managing these servers know what they're doing and can give the developers a good SLA. Although some additional work on file/DB syncing would be necessary to have a hot spare.
- bayindirh 9y agoGitLab on hosted hardware works great. I maintain two different instances. One of them automatically updates itself, and it just works.
- rtpg 9y agoOr you can pay a nominal fee to GitHub and not have to manage anything... I like that Gitlab exists but I am willing to pay a lot of money to not have to manage yet another server
- jrochkind1 9y agoMost non-huge companies are unlikely to be able provide _more_ reliability from a self-hosted installation than a cloud hosted installation. I suspect this is true of gitlab, but if it's not, it would speak negatively to gitlab's ability to provide a reliable service. Certainly while github is occasionally down or misbehaving, there's no way any enterprise I've worked at could self-host with as much reliability as github.