As I said, it depends on your needs. I don't know if you have ever managed a small gitlab self-hosted installation, but it's really trivial, you set up it the f

As I said, it depends on your needs. I don't know if you have ever managed a small gitlab self-hosted installation, but it's really trivial, you set up it the first time, and you forget about it. Also, the upgrade process takes few minutes to complete. Btw, you cannot compare a scheduled maintenance window with an unplanned downtime ... maybe in the middle of an important deployment.