[Sir_Substance]

>you have to factor in the cost of installation, maintenance and update.

That number is about 10 minutes a month with a one-time setup of an afternoon, seriously. I've been running my own gitlab for about 2 years. Whenever my letsencrypt certicate warnings arrive, I go update them and then do a full update sweep on the OS.

I could also automate half of that by setting up automated OS updates, but the time spent administering the system is so low it hardly matters.

[remy_]

That may be true for gitlab, but it's not the case for all the development tools. Like good luck running a selenium grid with 10min of maintenance per month.

[Sir_Substance]

Just because there are hard things out there doesn't mean you should give in on the easy things.

Why cook your own meals at home? After all, dumplings are a pain to make so why bother cooking anything? Just eat takeaway all day, we can all agree that's the sensible reaction to the existence of dumpings, right?

Oh wait, that's stupid reasoning. Do what you feel is best with your highly domain specific selenium issue, but for goodness sake, keep control of your own source code while you do it. /That/ part is easy as.