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Comment by suyash | Hacker News Reader

Can anyone explain why would someone use GitLab vs Enterprise Github?

I'm at a school. We've got hardware for VMs but zero budget. I was/am tasked with getting a basic Git server up-and-running, and GitLab hit the necessary points of (a) running on a Linux VM (b) having a GUI for Git and (c) being free.

I could see us using GitHub further down the road after we get some best practices in place and start using Git more, but for the time being GitLab is an excellent way to test the waters, especially since the GitHub Windows and Mac apps will work with an arbitrary 'origin' URL.

Because you don't want to push your business secrets to a (US) company?

Isn't GitHub Enterprise self hosted?

I'd imagine the main reason to go with GitLab is that it's free. GitHub Enterprise costs more than Stash (although it offers more).

I thought not, but maybe I'm mistaken?

I know that there is some payed service that isn't self hosted.

That's a silly reason, where do you think your emails, facebook, twitter feed is hosted? I trust US companies over any other.

Out emails are hosted on our company's server. Facebook and Twitter are publicity channels with public information only. And we don't even have that important corporate secrets.

You might trust US companies, but after Snowden many people don't trust the US anymore (industry espionage). And there is no reason if you aren't a one man shop to not host such things yourself.

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