Gitlab was down

Post by frant-hartm » Thu, Nov 28, 2019, 12:48 PM UTC

oefrha wrote: post #64

1337shadow wrote: post #51

Back in the days GitLab made it clear that it aspires to be a software company rather than an infrastructure company. The reason I favor GitLab over GitHub is that I can install it on a dedicated server and have blazing fast performance, which helps development performance on an every day basis. I've been maintaining a bunch of deployments of all sorts (k8s, docker-compose, baremetal) for the last years for several c…

> have blazing fast performance Sorry, but GitLab has never been blazing fast. The gitlab.com instance is notoriously slow — supposedly improved a lot over the past few years, but still feels pretty sluggish. My self-hosted instance isn’t much better. In fact, a couple of open source maintainer friends looked into migrating to GitLab when GitHub was acquired by MS; they did not precisely because GitLab was too slow.

Post by kungtotte » Thu, Nov 28, 2019, 12:48 PM UTC

jlengrand wrote: post #66

I used to be a total Gitlab fanboy. I was going to Sid's meetups back in Utrecht 6 years ago, and he's a model of mine to this time. I would have done anything to stay on the platform, for at home and the office and setup gitlab instances in two different offices. Since somewhere last year, I moved back to Github primarily, and I'm sad to hear that my company is likely to make the same choice soon.The only reason is…

Post by ifthenelseend » Thu, Nov 28, 2019, 12:52 PM UTC

Post by Aeolun » Thu, Nov 28, 2019, 12:54 PM UTC

oefrha wrote: post #74

frant-hartm wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From my experience a custom GitLab instance is much faster that GitHub.com. But it is apples and oranges and I suppose your friends weren't comparing the two.

My custom GitLab instance is still slower than github.com. (Yes, I’m giving it enough memory.)

Post by tristanperry » Thu, Nov 28, 2019, 12:56 PM UTC

protomikron wrote: post #76

kungtotte wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Whenever GitHub is down you see comments saying much the same thing only with the names reversed. The thing that strikes me each time is how fragile everyone's setup is if GitHub/lab is a single point of failure for them... At least gitlab let's you self host, which would let you run backups on offsite hosting meaning zero downtime.

GitHub's uptime is way better than GitLab. I am not really sure gitlab.com even reaches 99% availability (not to mention 99.9%). GitLab may well be focused on providing full-stack dev-services (VCS, build-server, CI and stuff), but in the end they are a hosting company - and for hosting, uptime is one of the most important metrics. EDIT: 99% was exaggerating, but I got so many 50Xs the last days that it was from time…