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Re: GitLab announces $4M series A funding from Khosla Ventures

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Post by hobarrera » Tue, Sep 22, 2015, 5:03 AM UTC

codegeek wrote: post #13

I tried to use gitlab and was very excited with the self host option. But for a small business, it was too much hassle with setup, installation and the biggest issue: huge memory requirement. On a DigitalOcean droplet of 512MB, it was too slow. I switched to Bitbucket private repo. May be i was not doing something right.

I'm curious as to why you didn't simply go with the free hosted gitlab.com option, instead of bitbucket. Both are hosted, and I feel that gitlab has more features (ci, free, and a few small niceties).

Re: GitLab announces $4M series A funding from Khosla Ventures

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Post by hobarrera » Tue, Sep 22, 2015, 5:04 AM UTC

gtaylor wrote: post #16

codegeek wrote: post #13

I tried to use gitlab and was very excited with the self host option. But for a small business, it was too much hassle with setup, installation and the biggest issue: huge memory requirement. On a DigitalOcean droplet of 512MB, it was too slow. I switched to Bitbucket private repo. May be i was not doing something right.

> May be i was not doing something right. Here you go: > On a DigitalOcean droplet of 512MB I'm not sure it's realistic to expect great performance on a tiny droplet in a budget provider that over-provisions the heck out of these tiny instance sizes. Spend more than $5/month and you may get better results.

It's actually not so obvious. I run an droplet with email, xmpp, web, several django apps (+postgres), and a few other small things, and don't even come close to pushing the limit on the cheapest DO droplet.

GitLab has actually a pretty large overhead, and for a single user, it requires quite a bit of CPU/RAM. I assume that the requirement is not lineal though.

Re: GitLab announces $4M series A funding from Khosla Ventures

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Post by izolate » Tue, Sep 22, 2015, 11:51 AM UTC

sytse wrote: post #80

sytse wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Please do!

I'm happy to report we just improved the markdown file rendering in GitLab, this started because of the comments here.

Ah, that was going to be my excuse to start contributing to GitLab! But either way, happy it's been taken care of.

Re: GitLab announces $4M series A funding from Khosla Ventures

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Post by sytse » Wed, Sep 23, 2015, 12:59 AM UTC

izolate wrote: post #83

sytse wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm happy to report we just improved the markdown file rendering in GitLab, this started because of the comments here.

Ah, that was going to be my excuse to start contributing to GitLab! But either way, happy it's been taken care of.

:) there is still enough to do, see http://feedback.gitlab.com/forums/176466-general/status/7964...