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I honestly can't see why someone would go through the trouble of making sure their instance is correctly configured and available when there are solutions (like
by 908B64B197 6y ago
I honestly can't see why someone would go through the trouble of making sure their instance is correctly configured and available when there are solutions (like GitHub) that just work out of the box.
- paulryanrogers 6y agoControl. Github can change the behavior, pricing, availability, or security of their offerings at any time. If they get hacked then you could suffer. GH is also closed source. For many a self hosted solution is better, despite the costs.
- modoc 6y agoIt's not a lot of trouble. To be fair my GitLab instance isn't setup for large numbers of public contributors. I have a somewhat limited network connection and work on projects that often have large-ish codebases, building Docker images, etc.... and I do 90% of that on my home network (local servers, storage, etc....). So running GitLab locally allows me (and a few other folks) to get all those nice features without relying on the world facing internet connection and without having lots of delays moving large files up and down...
- 908B64B197 6y agoThat's the use-case I can understand (if someone has a large number of machines or a fast internal network behind a VPN). My comment was more aimed at public facing projects that are open and accept contributions from anyone.