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My startup has been using GitLab Community Edition for 3 years now and we're really happy with it -- especially the code review features. We've also started using the CI in the past few months.

At this point I want a similar setup for my personal projects, but didn't feel like running a dedicated EC2 box just for a GitLab instance, so I've been using Bitbucket to host free private repos instead. What are others using to manage their own private repos?

Edit: I wasn't aware GitLab.com offers free private repos too. Even if, "Right now GitLab.com is really slow and frequently down."

https://about.gitlab.com/gitlab-com/

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Disclosure: I work at GitLab. Have you looked at using our free hosted SaaS GitLab.com with unlimited repos and collaborators? Thanks for using CE!

Thank you! Somehow I completely overlooked that page.

Can you elaborate on the monthly uptime in reference to the quote on the GitLab.com page?

> Right now GitLab.com is really slow and frequently down.

IME there's only an hour or so of downtime each month.

Like I said to GitLab numerous time, GitLab should split ( or go back to ) their original Gitlab.org and Gitlab.com

Their current SaaS is simply not up to standard and it will be hard for others or business to trust and run on it. They should instead run GitlAb SaaS like a proper business.

We're very aware that the current performance of GitLab.com is not acceptable. This is caused by its fast growth and we're working very hard to improve it in the coming months. Yesterday we migrated to all SSD storage, which is an important step.

https://twitter.com/gitlabstatus on https://status.gitlab.com mentions Azure cloud several times.

  "The rsync to *Azure* SSD got interrupted last night 
  when we had an outage. Restarting it now." - 18th Dec

  "This means service will partially restore over the next
  few minutes and then go away again once the *Azure* 
  restart command succeeds." 

  "Looks like we are headed for the ‘double restart’ 
  scenario. The NFS server came back on its own but 
  *Azure* is still busy restarting it."

  "*Azure* restart of the NFS server is in progress"

  "Depending on whether the machine is stuck or already 
  rebooting. No way to tell with *Azure*."

  "*Azure* CLI restart of the NFS server finished, that is 
  usually a good sign."

  "We are experimenting with copying data out of our 
  current *Azure* storage account. Unfortunately the 
  copying affects http://gitlab.com" - 1st Dez

  "Azure incident quote: Network Infrastructure and 
  Storage - East US 2 - Partial Service Interruption 
  [East US 2]" - 11. Nov

  "Seems to be a major @azure outage..." - 11th Nov

  "At 18:00UTC we will start migrating PostgreSQL to Azure 
  Premium Storage gitlab.com/gitlab-com/ope… , expect 15 
  minutes downtime." - 10. Nov

  "trying another Azure restart of the NFS server " - 6th Nov

  "In the last 24h, we had two reboots of our Redis server 
  seemingly caused by Azure (no kernel panics) and VHD 
  read errors on the NFS server" - 5th Nov

  "Azure are sponsoring us so we are saving a lot on our 
  hosting bill. We are documenting the move on an upcoming 
  blog post." - 16th Oct

There have appearently been really big troubles, starting in November! Is Azure cloud that bad or is it a problem on your side? What about moving to AWS/Google/Rackspace?

We moving to metal on Softlayer. See https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/operations/issues/14

Thanks for the info. All the best with the transition to IBM Softlayer.

Thanks!

Hey I am browsing some of the CI examples and this is the first one I saw

https://gitlab.com/ayufan/python-getting-started/builds/1793...

I can't seem to tell how to find logs.

The logs are normally on this page. In this case there is no log, probably due to an error (this build is 4 months old). For a better example see https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/builds/485077

Ah ok. It was unclear from the UI that old logs are archived.

The example you linked is much better thanks.

You're very welcome.

Interesting. What do you like about code review things? I personally found it to be lacking. It's hard to dig up comments on branches that have been merged into a master branch and I'd also like to have notes/comments on the HEAD of a project. Right now, they just get perpetually buried. That's where a lot of project decisions end up getting made in my team.

Perhaps we should be using a wiki or some other system, but I'd really love for some more enhancements to code review.

I agree with you on finding branch comments post-merge. I found using merge requests makes it easier, but to be honest, I don't look at comments much after the fact. Making more small branches with merge requests was really helpful for us.

As far as commenting on HEAD, I think they've intentionally avoided that given how fast it could change and not having a deterministic way to anchoring comments to the correct lines.

Related: Tom Lehman from Genius explains some of the problems of fuzzy annotation anchoring in a 10-min video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJyqfRcyYIQ.

I just use gitolite [1]. I have the smallest droplet you can get on DigitalOcean, and it hosts my website along with gitolite and a couple of very small CI jobs for personal projects. There is no cool web UI, but I'm fine with that.

[1] http://gitolite.com/

What about hosting them on gitlab.com?

AWS CodeCommit is another option.

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