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by Uninen 2399 days ago
We use GitLab at work and I use it for personal projects as well, it has been very slow for several days now and they had downtime yesterday as well.

I don't mind the general sluggishness of the system that much (as I love the platform in general) but when you can't get your work (nor hobbies) done because of tools breaking, it gets really annoying really fast.
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tadzik_ 2399 days ago
> when you can't get your work (...) done because of tools breaking, it gets really annoying really fast

I always assumed that the publicly hosted version of gitlab is basically a giant demo version of the enterprise edition you buy to host it yourself. Hell, you can even host the community edition for free.

If your work relies on it, why rely on a free online product?

EDIT: TIL gitlab.com also has a paid options. I stand corrected.

We have a hosted Gitlab at 2 of my clients. Both are up.

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idiocratic 2399 days ago
The online version has non-free plans as well, so I don't see your point of not relying on it.
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Uninen 2399 days ago
> If your work relies on it, why rely on a free online product?

We're not using the free product, we're paying customers (using the hosted saas version of the product).

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andrelaszlo 2399 days ago
> If your work relies on it, why rely on a free online product?

Some orgs are paying 99$ per user-month for the SaaS version of gitlab.com, they probably rely on it pretty heavily :)

https://web.archive.org/web/20191119174637/https://about.git...

Edit: others made the same point, but I'll leave this here for the link to the pricing page.

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Ndymium 2399 days ago
gitlab.com is not only for free clients, plenty of paid clients use it instead of hosting themselves.
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bArray 2399 days ago
To be fair, just be thankful you don't use something like Jazz RTC - we had down time at least once every two weeks (from an hour to a whole day at a time). It got so bad we ended up setting up a local network Raspberry Pi as a Git server and emailing patches to remote teams.
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frant-hartm 2399 days ago
It's still essentially a git repository, you can work locally and push later.

Yes, the issues, MR, reviews are not available, but honestly I wouldn't want to be in a job where I could not get by without it for several hours.

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11235813213455 2399 days ago
In terms of energy and storage usage (so environment footprint), wouldn't their shared online hosting be more efficient than many self-hosted ones here and there?
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progfix 2399 days ago
It's not a tool, it's an online service.
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