[ceejayoz]

> You could certainly purchase access to private Github repositories, but most certainly you’d rather want to invest your capital in more pressing matters.

Getting a few private repositories on GH is $7/month.

It'll cost me more than that for a server, not to mention the time setting up and managing.

[bau5]

Unlike GitLab, gogs can probably run well on a $5 DigitalOcean instance.

[awalGarg]

Can confirm. Running Gitlab on the $5 (or even $10) Digital Ocean VM is not gonna give you optimal experience unless you are a single user with a tiny repository and dedicate the entire VM to Gitlab (even after that, it is pretty slow on the $5 instance).

Haven't tried Gogs yet but sounds like it would be faster.

[DouweM]

Digital Ocean recommends running GitLab on their $10/month instance, so while I haven't tried it, the $5 one is probably still up to the task: https://www.digitalocean.com/features/one-click-apps/gitlab/

(Full disclosure: I'm a developer at GitLab B.V.)

[sytse]

If you're going for the 512MB please read the requirements https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/blob/master/doc/inst... (make sure to set up swap and use ssh access)

[bau5]

> 512MB RAM + 1.5GB of swap is the absolute minimum

lol

[ceejayoz]

Leaving me with an entire annual savings of $24 over Github.

I should probably set up SSL, backups, patch it occasionally, etc., which is going to pretty quickly eat that up.

[bau5]

You could use BitBucket. They have free private repositories.

The cool thing about this is that it makes self-hosting a viable option for more people.

[jonalmeida]

I've got Gitlab running on a DigitalOcean droplet, and even if you choose not to use their pre-built images, setting up Gitlab is very easy.