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GitHub is pretty easily the most unreliable service I've used in the past five years. Is GitLab better in this regard? At this point my trust in GitHub is essen
by _jab 11mo ago
GitHub is pretty easily the most unreliable service I've used in the past five years. Is GitLab better in this regard? At this point my trust in GitHub is essentially zero - they don't deserve my money any longer.
- noosphr 11mo agoYou can make it as reliable as you want by hosting it on prem.
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- themafia 11mo agoFlashbacks to me pushing hard for GitLab self hosting a few months ago. The rest of the team did not feel the lift was worth it. I utterly hate being at the mercy of a third party with an after thought of a "status page" to stare at.
- cindyllm 11mo ago[dead]
- jakub_g 11mo ago> as reliable as you want We self-host GitLab but the team owning it is having hard time scaling it. From my understanding talking to them, the design of gitaly makes it very hard to scale it beyond certain repo size and # of pushes per day (for reference: our repos are GBs in size, ~1M commits, hundreds of merges per day)
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- loloquwowndueo 11mo agoForgejo, my dudes.
- esafak 11mo agoDo we know its uptime statistics?
- loloquwowndueo 11mo agoWhat do you mean. Forgejo is self-hosted, uptime is up to you.
- esafak 11mo agoMea culpa. I forgot, perhaps thinking of codeberg.
- ecshafer 11mo agoWe self host gitlab, so its very stable. But Gitlab also kind of is enterprise software. It hits every feature checkbox, but they aren't well integrated, and they are kind of half way done. I don't think its as smooth of an experience as Github personally, or as feature rich. But Gitlab can self host your project repos, cicd, issues, wikis, etc. and it does it at least okay.
- input_sh 11mo agoI would argue GitLab CI/CD is miles ahead of the dumpster fire that is GitHub Actions. Also the homepage is actually useful, unlike GitHub's.
- yoyohello13 11mo agoWe've been self hosting GitLab for 5 years and it's the most reliable service in our organization. We haven't had a single outage. We use Gitlab CI and security scanning extensively.
- markbnj 11mo agoDitto, self-hosted for over eight years at my last job. SCM server and 2-4 runners depending on what we needed. Very impressive stability and when we had to upgrade their "upgrade path" tooling was a huge help.
- JonChesterfield 11mo agoCouldn't log into it this morning when cloudflare was down so there's that.
- tapoxi 11mo agoAnother GitLab self-hosting user here, we've run it on Kubernetes for 6 years. It's never gone down for us, maybe an hour of downtime yearly as we upgrade Postgres to a new version.
- globular-toast 11mo agoSame. Also running on-prem for 6+ years with no issues. GitLab CI is WAY better than GitHub too.
- jakub_g 11mo agoMy company self-hosts GitLab. Gitaly (the git server) is a weekly source of incidents, it doesn't scale well (CPU/memory spikes which end up taking down the web interface and API). However we have pretty big monorepos with hundreds of daily committers, probably not very representative.
- cactusfrog 11mo agoThere’s this Gitlab incident https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLdRBsuvVKc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLdRBsuvVKc
- tottenhm 11mo agoFrequently use both `github.com` and self-hosted Gitlab. IMHO, it's just... different. Self-hosted Gitlab periodically blocks access for auto-upgrades. Github.com upgrades are usually invisible. Github.com is periodically hit with the broad/systemic cloud-outage. Self-hosted Gitlab is more decentralized infra, so you don't have the systemic outages. With self-hosted Gitlab, you likely to have to deal with rude bots on your own. Github.com has an ops team that deals with the rude bots. I'm sure the list goes on. (shrug)
- geoffbp 11mo agoGitlab has regular issues (we use Saas) and the support isn’t great. They acknowledge problems, but the same ones happen again and again. It’s very hard to get anything on their roadmap etc.
- attendant3446 11mo agoWe use gitlab.com at work, and it's noticeably bad. Parts of it go down monthly, or sometimes even weekly.
- WhyNotHugo 11mo agoGitLab is slow and its pages are heavy. I often have to work on slow/unreliable internet and GitLab pages simply can’t finish loading. Most of them need to load megabytes of JavaScript before they even fetch the data to be shown. The data being usually under 1kB of text.