[lima]

It's actually much easier to setup and operate than GitLab with its massive dependencies.

Also a lot faster.

[Karunamon]

Gitlab is unfortunately a pig, in the large and bloated sense of the term. Which is really sad! I love the app, it looks better than Phabricator and does so much more, but then I can throw Phabricator on the same droplet I use for plenty of other stuff with resources to spare for $5/month, where Gitlab would require a dedicated $10 instance just due to memory usage alone.

Guess I'm just not the target audience :(

[brodock]

You can use gitlab.com for free... don't need to install it in your own box.

[jobvandervoort]

Setting up GitLab can be done through our repositories quite easily nowadays. It boils down to: apt-get install gitlab-ce

[cookiesboxcar]

I'm talking specifically about the client tool arcanist, which IMO is the real benefit of Phabricator