[koyote]

And once you start self-hosting, you realise how slow the 'modern' web actually is.

I host forgejo on a single NUC with a bunch of other stuff in Proxmox, the page loads in 6ms! Immich is not quite as fast but still a ton faster than Google photos.

[oefrha]

That’s not a given. Self-hosted GitLab on my pretty good hardware is still slow. I just opened a very small repo with ~20 files and ~5 commits. The page spun for 5s+ before showing me the directory listing and readme. Subsequent loads are faster (~1s) but still not instant.

[koyote]

GitLab is what drove me to forgejo, it just became unsustainably slow.