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0 pointsrascul3y ago0 comments

> GitLab Premium, at €20/(user*month) is not that pricy though, given you get the whole saas stack with it.

It is insanely expensive for me as a small time hobby coder. I'm not sure what I'll do if I ever hit the free plan limits but $228/year is not the answer for me.

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arinlen3y ago

> It is insanely expensive for me as a small time hobby coder.

No small time hobby coder needs GitLab Premium. You are free to create as many projects and groups as you need, without having to pay a dime.

rasculOP3y ago

> No small time hobby coder needs GitLab Premium. You are free to create as many projects and groups as you need, without having to pay a dime.

For now, I'm nowhere near any limits of the free plan. I'm not sure I'll ever be but I'm not ruling out the possibility, especially if/when the plans change in the future.

Edit: My local Linux kernel git repo is over 4GB. If I wanted to hack on that and keep it on Gitlab, with my current usage, I would be pretty close to the 5GB limit. Of course I don't need Premium in such a case as there is a (relatively expensive) storage addition option, but if I need to expand again then Premium would actually be $1 less and I'll get more storage.

dijit3y ago

OR: You can run your own node and pay the native cost for storage.

I run a gitlab for my IRC network (https://git.drk.sc) because I like to do sysadmin things and some people don't want to do that.

But storage isn't free, it's not really fair to expect everything hosted for free, they give you the software which you can run yourself.

I know Github does this; but it's obviously a loss leader for them and I do think that the day will come that they'll start restricting (heavily) the free tiers once they have total dominance on the Git ecosystem or the financials start becoming a huge issue.

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andrewaylett3y ago

I'm pretty sure of my reading: if your GitLab repo is a fork of an existing repo, you only pay for the difference.

It may well be that your repo currently isn't a fork of something like https://gitlab.com/linux-kernel/linux then you can fork it, add the fork as your origin, and push the result.

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