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0 pointsdijit3y ago0 comments

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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rascul3y ago

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

At that point I'll just run Gitea on a sub-$5 VPS. It does more than what I need and is simple to run, and has more storage for less.

> 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'm more interested in paying a reasonable amount if I hit their free plan limits. My point is that their pricing scheme seems ridiculously high for small time hobby coders like myself and will drive me away from Gitlab if I hit their limits, instead of giving them money.

mynameisvlad3y ago

You can, per another comment it’s $60/yr for 10GB extra storage. Not exactly cheap, though.

dijitOP3y ago

$0.50/m per Gig.

Pretty high; maybe 20x what Google would charge for raw storage for regionally available disks.

Not counting access (0.05c/10,000 ops) or backups.

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