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can be self-hosted. This gets around things like user limits, which are a current blocker. But should we? Pro, cons, alternatives? Dear Internet, please advise

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I've been hosting it for my own development and I like that the built-in ci/cd. It's only me, but it's served me well. The ram usage is high, 2.5gb, but not bad.

I also run it via docker compose for easier updating.

@worldsendless
With compose it was really just an hour or so, with certs, port forwarding, etc. It actually took a little longer than normal because I had another server on that ip that had ssh on. I passed gitlab's ssh through another ip that didn't.

@worldsendless we have a GitLab instance on-prem running for the last 4 or 5 years.

We haven't had any major issues, but we don't use it a lot (only as git repo, we have started to use gitlab-ci this year)

Just be prepared to update it every single month, maybe more 😅 (that's the first thing we automated)

@worldsendless we've run it for many years on-prem along with some Windows and some Linux runners for the CI, all as docker-based installs. We've had no significant issues that I can recall. The attention to detail on upgrades is impressive - even upgrading 2 major versions forward from our regretfully-stale install was smooth and trouble free.

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