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Self hosting GitLab = Run 1 single Docker Container. Very easy.

It’s mostly a matter of backups. Only pick self hosted if you can back it up reliably every night.

The gitlab omnibus installation has built in support for backups. Literally just run a single command to create a backup on a network share.

Not having backups for gitlab on prem is just lazy system administration.

It wasn't a problem of losing the DB. The database got corrupted some how. All of the backups eventually became corrupted. This prevented us from upgrading from some version to some other version.