He gains not only hosting value from maintaining the instance, but also the experience. And the experience is a valuable asset that you can't really buy with mo

He gains not only hosting value from maintaining the instance, but also the experience. And the experience is a valuable asset that you can't really buy with money. Obviously, a sort of pre-built image to spawn "own" Gitolite/Gitlab/whatever instance would be nice, so noone but those particularly interested in the process would have to spend their time setting things up. But I suspect such images/build scripts already exist, it's just that I didn't even bothered to search for them.