[runemadsen]

My experience with GitLab is that they accelerated very quickly in the beginning with a focus on new features. This made the whole ecosystem incredibly slow, and it's unbearable for me to run as a service on my own hardware / cloud accounts. I guess that's the problem with these open source services that also rely on paid platform income. I have tested out https://gogs.io/ and the difference in speed is just incredible.

[jorams]

My experience with Gogs is now a few years out of date, but after using it for a few months we ended up switching to GitLab. Gogs was amazingly fast and required few resources, but with moderately-sized repositories or even slightly large pull requests it slowed to a crawl. At some point it screwed up some on-disk repository state causing pull request merges to trigger server errors, which required manual cleanup. Meanwhile GitLab (omnibus), with a few users on a VPS with 4GB memory, remains consistently fast and entirely problem-free.