I’ve never heard of GitGud.io, so I took a look at their home page/login page.
Wow a lot of those claims are bad:
> Free - Yes, totally free for any user or group
Such claims are invariably false. Or, stated most generously, heavily misleading, because of limitations. And that’s even ignoring the common “it became popular and we realised what we were offering wasn’t sustainable so we’re charging or limiting sharply or shutting down” result.
> Fast - One of the fastest git hosting services
Holistically, I’d say this isn’t even possible if you’re using GitLab. Significant parts of GitLab are very slow. And as for GitGud.io at present, well, that repository’s URL is consistently taking about ten seconds to send the first byte of the response, and even HEAD / takes more than five seconds to issue a 302 redirect to /users/sign_in.
> Highly available - average uptime of 99.83% ¹
Look, “highly available” is a vague term, but for this kind of service I’d expect it to mean three nines at the very least, probably four, and to mean an architecture and upgrade deployment mechanism significantly different from GitLab’s, where upgrades are disruptive.
Also, their actual status page is currently saying 91.16% for the last 24 hours (2h7m of downtime), which is already more than two months’ downtime budget even at 99.83%.
> Reliable - We have never lost any data, unlike other services
You also probably haven’t dealt with any of the scale-related issues that have caused data loss in said Other Services.