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Re: Introducing Exclusive Features to GitLab.com Bronze, Silver and Gold Plans

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Post by mattl »

brianwawok wrote: post #18

Fun plot twist about at least self hosted Gitlab.. You are charged per user. When you install on your own server, it automatically makes an "admin" user. And then you get billed for this user. Despite never using him or doing anything with him, apparently a shell of a user costs a $4 licensing cost per month. They really need to clean up the setup workflow, I have literally never used a piece of software that charged…

I typically make the default user my account, but you can also delete that account if you like I believe.

Re: Introducing Exclusive Features to GitLab.com Bronze, Silver and Gold Plans

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Post by aphextron »

ComputerGuru wrote: post #9

Mandatory heads-up for those that haven't come across them: gogs [0] and its fork gitea [1] are zero config, download-and-run, self-hosted alternatives to GitHub/BitBucket/GitLab that won't suck the life out of your server, are efficiently written, and very fast even on underpowered (read: RPi) hardware or shared VPS nodes. 0: https://gogs.io/ 1: https://gitea.io/en-US/

Seconded for gogs. Gitlab is a bloated mess.

Re: Introducing Exclusive Features to GitLab.com Bronze, Silver and Gold Plans

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Post by brianwawok »

mattl wrote: post #21
brianwawok wrote: post #18

Fun plot twist about at least self hosted Gitlab.. You are charged per user. When you install on your own server, it automatically makes an "admin" user. And then you get billed for this user. Despite never using him or doing anything with him, apparently a shell of a user costs a $4 licensing cost per month. They really need to clean up the setup workflow, I have literally never used a piece of software that charged…

I typically make the default user my account, but you can also delete that account if you like I believe.

But opps you went over your license count by 1 when creating your user, so your next renewal you will pay a penalty for that admin user.

Re: Introducing Exclusive Features to GitLab.com Bronze, Silver and Gold Plans

#24

Post by riffic »

brianwawok wrote: post #18

Fun plot twist about at least self hosted Gitlab.. You are charged per user. When you install on your own server, it automatically makes an "admin" user. And then you get billed for this user. Despite never using him or doing anything with him, apparently a shell of a user costs a $4 licensing cost per month. They really need to clean up the setup workflow, I have literally never used a piece of software that charged…

Please do not spread misinformation via HN. Self-hosted GitLab CE (Community Edition) is and remains free

Re: Introducing Exclusive Features to GitLab.com Bronze, Silver and Gold Plans

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Post by brianwawok »

riffic wrote: post #24
brianwawok wrote: post #18

Fun plot twist about at least self hosted Gitlab.. You are charged per user. When you install on your own server, it automatically makes an "admin" user. And then you get billed for this user. Despite never using him or doing anything with him, apparently a shell of a user costs a $4 licensing cost per month. They really need to clean up the setup workflow, I have literally never used a piece of software that charged…

Please do not spread misinformation via HN. Self-hosted GitLab CE (Community Edition) is and remains free

Do you even go to their page?

https://about.gitlab.com/products/

Look at EES and EEP

Re: Introducing Exclusive Features to GitLab.com Bronze, Silver and Gold Plans

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Post by mi100hael »

ComputerGuru wrote: post #9

Mandatory heads-up for those that haven't come across them: gogs [0] and its fork gitea [1] are zero config, download-and-run, self-hosted alternatives to GitHub/BitBucket/GitLab that won't suck the life out of your server, are efficiently written, and very fast even on underpowered (read: RPi) hardware or shared VPS nodes. 0: https://gogs.io/ 1: https://gitea.io/en-US/

cgit is even faster

https://git.zx2c4.com/cgit/about/

Re: Introducing Exclusive Features to GitLab.com Bronze, Silver and Gold Plans

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Post by koolba »

brianwawok wrote: post #18

Fun plot twist about at least self hosted Gitlab.. You are charged per user. When you install on your own server, it automatically makes an "admin" user. And then you get billed for this user. Despite never using him or doing anything with him, apparently a shell of a user costs a $4 licensing cost per month. They really need to clean up the setup workflow, I have literally never used a piece of software that charged…

Either you really have no clue what you're talking about (GitLab CE is totally free, both as in beer and speech) or this is some clever guerilla marketing by GitLab. If it's the latter, color me impressed!

Re: Introducing Exclusive Features to GitLab.com Bronze, Silver and Gold Plans

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Post by brianwawok »

koolba wrote: post #27
brianwawok wrote: post #18

Fun plot twist about at least self hosted Gitlab.. You are charged per user. When you install on your own server, it automatically makes an "admin" user. And then you get billed for this user. Despite never using him or doing anything with him, apparently a shell of a user costs a $4 licensing cost per month. They really need to clean up the setup workflow, I have literally never used a piece of software that charged…

Either you really have no clue what you're talking about (GitLab CE is totally free, both as in beer and speech) or this is some clever guerilla marketing by GitLab. If it's the latter, color me impressed!

Gitlab EES and EEP are not free

Re: Introducing Exclusive Features to GitLab.com Bronze, Silver and Gold Plans

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Post by awill »

mydigitalself wrote: post #15
jasonrhaas wrote: post #13

I have been using the free hosted plan for about a month now, which includes the "Silver" tier features. I'm really happy about their Early Adopter program! They are keeping my current Silver capability for free for another 12 months. I have to say, I really like gitlab.com. The UI is slick, and you get a ton of features right out of the box (for free). Bravo gitlab.com, keep up the good work!

Thank you for the kind words, we've been working hard on improving the UI (have you tried the latest update in https://gitlab.com/profile/preferences#new-navigation ) and have tried to make our free offering as valuable as possible as well as treating our existing free customers respectfully.

I didn't know you there was a new UI. I just switched over. Definitely seems like an improvement. Good job everyone!

Re: Introducing Exclusive Features to GitLab.com Bronze, Silver and Gold Plans

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Post by koolba »

mi100hael wrote: post #26
ComputerGuru wrote: post #9

Mandatory heads-up for those that haven't come across them: gogs [0] and its fork gitea [1] are zero config, download-and-run, self-hosted alternatives to GitHub/BitBucket/GitLab that won't suck the life out of your server, are efficiently written, and very fast even on underpowered (read: RPi) hardware or shared VPS nodes. 0: https://gogs.io/ 1: https://gitea.io/en-US/

cgit is even faster https://git.zx2c4.com/cgit/about/

I've never used it but as it appears to be made by the same guy that made password store[1] (i.e. "pass") then I've got a default high opinion of it. Will definitely be checking it out.

[1]: https://www.passwordstore.org/

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