We have a gitlab instance here. It is heavy its true, but ours runs completely in a self-contained container. A desktop PC could easily handle GitLab. It doesnt really take much. Ours is running on a single server with 10 other services and it is very responsive.
Moreover gitea is lighter but at the cost of having almost none of the features side from the basics. I know for me, even for personal projects, that wouldnt do the trick.
@codeberg@mastodon.technology
Not sure about your use case. But I remember it was eating around 8GB ram constantly with around 15 users using.
Also another factor is can afford or not. Right now tbh I cannot(atleast GitLab).
I am using gitea.com for GitNex(moved from GitLab) and I did not feel I am missing anything except the CI part which drone provide anyway. Thanks to gitea guys they allowed us to use their drone server. ๐
with 8 gigs it can scale to hundreds. It reserves the memory on startup but doesnt scale linearly. 8 gigs is all you need for 1 user or 500. Which is around what i said, the resources f a common PC
@codeberg@mastodon.technology
BTW yu are more than welcome to use our instance for free, even provide a free runner: https://git.qoto.org
We include the ultimate license also for free across the server.
@codeberg@mastodon.technology
I'm the founder, but we are a team, I have other mods, as well as donators (though I donate the most through my own companies)
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GitLab is heavy compare to Gitea. I would self host Gitea than GitLab.
I used GitLab EE self hosted for my previous company and right now one thing I can say is it's not affordable for single or few person use.