[tadzik_]

> 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.

[idiocratic]

The online version has non-free plans as well, so I don't see your point of not relying on it.

[Uninen]

> 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).

[andrelaszlo]

> 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.

[Ndymium]

gitlab.com is not only for free clients, plenty of paid clients use it instead of hosting themselves.