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Host on premise? Or use Gitlab as service or - again - on premise. Outsourcing in general and literally "outsourcing" should be done for things you cannot do yourself properly (no competence, too much work, no feasible resources).

Long read but describing it neatly: https://danluu.com/nothing-works/

A decision between - do you pay your personnel for doing it - or - do you give others money and hope they do it in a way which is good enough. Outsourcing as trend failed because it was driven by capitalism isn't a new finding. And as convenient removte web services are, the cloud is outsourcing.