[turbinerneiter]

GitLab, Gitea or others provide most, if not all, and in some cases even more features than GitHub. Theiy are fully or partially Open Source and they are easy to host.

You need to compare the cost of self-hosting to the cost of SaaS - INCLUDING the risk of getting locked out.

One downside of the SaaS model is that you are just a very small customer in the bigger scheme and they can't really justify spending money on servicing you. Let's say you are company of 5 people, paying 50 bucks a month for a service - how many hours per year can they spend on servicing you before you become a net-negative account? You much power do you have in a negotiation if you are a net-negative account?

[vinay427]

> Let's say you are company of 5 people, paying 50 bucks a month for a service - how many hours per year can they spend on servicing you before you become a net-negative account?

It probably isn't sustainable for a business to only consider this aspect. One thing that comes to mind with companies that thrive with a large number of small non-B2B customers, who individually don't tend to have much power, is that they understand that people love to talk about customer service when it's bad, and occasionally when it's very good as well. Word spreads, and nearly everyone places at least a little weight on this public perception of kindness or flexibility with customers especially when it isn't in the immediate financial interest of the company to do so.

[kavalg]

WRT self hosting, GitLab could be painful, but Gitea is really easy to host and keep up to date.

[risyachka]

I've been self-hosting gitlab for few years now in my company and never had a problem.

[sitkack]

You should clone your environment and then inject faults into the clone to cause yourself some simulated problems.

[kavalg]

How much resources does that consume (both compute and human)? Have you done upgrades?