Well, gitlab is way better. Github is the Facebook of developers.

Gitlab docs say the absolutely bare minimum of RAM to run it is 4GB. And that's just for gitlab, never mind Postgres. That's something like $70/mo just to host some git repos on a major cloud provider.

And if you're talking about the hosted solution... we use that at work. We have what are effectively outages once a week on average.

I like the way Gitlab as a company is run and I really want to like it but... I use gitea at home and we're actively migrating away from it at work.

>That's something like $70/mo just to host some git repos on a major cloud provider.

Don't use a major cloud provider. That's $20/mo with Digital Ocean.

Okay, host it wherever you're comfortable, but 4GB of RAM is still an absurd requirement for hosting a few git repos.

> gitea

Can confirm that gitea's pretty nice. It's not heavier than a web-based git host should be. I really like that it has a SQLite database option, since that's plenty good enough for low-tens of users and operationally simpler.

CVS and Subversion still exist!

I self host my repositories. In this way I do not care about either. But when I am searching for code Github proves to be very good source. I would not say that projects hosted on Gitlab are any better

I was not planning to get a paid account there anyway. And regardless I prefer gitlab (due to the ICE stuff).