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Self hosting is the best solution for our team. At least we can blame ourselves if something is down...

by number6 3y ago

Justsignedup 3y ago
... but can you make better uptime? :)
- number6 3y ago
  Better than GitHub, not better than Gitlab, tbh
tsak 3y ago
Funny enough, I used to think that, but overall having the people that actually build the software make a hosted version ends up being better value IMO. Our self hosted Gitlab instance needed a lot of hand holding over the years, occasional memory upgrades and involved much more work than initially anticipated. Also keep in mind that you need to spend time to keep the thing up to date and get latest features, which there have been quite a few good ones added over the years.
- sieabahlpark 3y ago
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- vaxman 3y ago
  > you need to spend time to keep the thing up to date and get latest features That attitude isn't really conducive to custom software development, but Gitlab has many other purposes.
ryanklee 3y ago
How does it follow that because a cloud provider has downtime that self-hosting is a better solution?
- emptysongglass 3y ago
  Because my GitLab self-hosted instance is up currently and theirs isn't.
  - ryanklee 3y ago
    And the next time your is down and their is up, are you suddenly going to arrive at the opposite conclusion? Without numbers, I don't see how you can make any decent conclusion at all.
    - emptysongglass 3y ago
      My GitLab server has at least beaten the GitHub down average so yes I'm feeling pretty good about it.
      - ryanklee 3y ago
        Well those are numbers, so it seems like there's more to your reasons than you're letting on.
    - number6 3y ago
      When our server is down, I know why. Out of Memory, Storage is full. Service is down. We can do something about it. If a hosted service is down there is nothing to do but wait.
      - YetAnotherNick 3y ago
        > Out of Memory, Storage is full. Service is down. Is that all you have seen? I have seen many self hosted services fail in our company and the answer is almost rarely any of these simple things but complex things like data loss, data corruption, random restarts, network partition, configuration sync issues etc. That is why companies pay other companies for critical things like gitlab even when self hosting.
      - lamontcg 3y ago

Self hosting is the best solution for our team. At least we can blame ourselves if something is down...

Justsignedup 3y ago

... but can you make better uptime? :)

number6 3y ago
Better than GitHub, not better than Gitlab, tbh

tsak 3y ago

Funny enough, I used to think that, but overall having the people that actually build the software make a hosted version ends up being better value IMO. Our self hosted Gitlab instance needed a lot of hand holding over the years, occasional memory upgrades and involved much more work than initially anticipated. Also keep in mind that you need to spend time to keep the thing up to date and get latest features, which there have been quite a few good ones added over the years.

sieabahlpark 3y ago
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vaxman 3y ago
> you need to spend time to keep the thing up to date and get latest features That attitude isn't really conducive to custom software development, but Gitlab has many other purposes.

ryanklee 3y ago

How does it follow that because a cloud provider has downtime that self-hosting is a better solution?

emptysongglass 3y ago
Because my GitLab self-hosted instance is up currently and theirs isn't.
- ryanklee 3y ago
  And the next time your is down and their is up, are you suddenly going to arrive at the opposite conclusion? Without numbers, I don't see how you can make any decent conclusion at all.
  - emptysongglass 3y ago
    My GitLab server has at least beaten the GitHub down average so yes I'm feeling pretty good about it.
    - ryanklee 3y ago
      Well those are numbers, so it seems like there's more to your reasons than you're letting on.
  - number6 3y ago
    When our server is down, I know why. Out of Memory, Storage is full. Service is down. We can do something about it. If a hosted service is down there is nothing to do but wait.
    - YetAnotherNick 3y ago
      > Out of Memory, Storage is full. Service is down. Is that all you have seen? I have seen many self hosted services fail in our company and the answer is almost rarely any of these simple things but complex things like data loss, data corruption, random restarts, network partition, configuration sync issues etc. That is why companies pay other companies for critical things like gitlab even when self hosting.
    - lamontcg 3y ago