[storrgie]

self hosting gitlab feels completely untenable, gitea is a wonderful project.

[lordelph]

Honestly, it's painless. Fire up a cloud server, run the omnibus installer and you're away. I can't remember having any serious issues in five years running it that way.

[mikewhy]

Ditto. Ran the Docker version for years. Upgrading was as simple as changing a version number and restarting.