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Re:Dropbox as a Git Server by m4r71n on Monday April 25, 2016 @11:30AM (#11564840)
Or GitLab? I really don't understand why anyone would misuse Dropbox as a Git server...
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Re:Dropbox as a Git Server by sytse on Monday April 25, 2016 @11:58AM (#11565092)
The OP seems to be interested in a SaaS (alternative for GitHub). For the people that think you always have to install GitLab, instead of running your own GitLab server you can also use GitLab.com with unlimited projects and collaborators, see https://about.gitlab.com/gitlab-com/
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Re:Dropbox as a Git Server by oblio on Monday April 25, 2016 @01:27PM (#11565767)
Has Gitlab done any work on the high availability front? I remember reading a while back that gitlab.com was hosted on 2 servers, or something like that.
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Re:Dropbox as a Git Server by quicksilver03 on Monday April 25, 2016 @06:22PM (#11567872)
They definitely stated that gitlab.com was running on one single server (plus a spare):

https://about.gitlab.com/2015/01/03/the-hardware-that-powers... https://about.gitlab.com/2015/03/09/moving-all-your-data/

It looks like this is no longer the case:

https://about.gitlab.com/2015/06/04/gitlab-dot-com-outage-on...

I haven't been able to determine if they're still storing the git repositories on NFS:

https://about.gitlab.com/2015/09/01/gitlab-dot-com-outage-on...

but if that's the case, I would be extremely nervous about the integrity and stability of their platform. I've had too many bad experiences with NFS mounts failing and general instability that I don't want to deploy it anymore.

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Re:Dropbox as a Git Server by sytse on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @06:04AM (#11570612)
We have many servers now, see https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/blog-posts/issues/214

We're still on NFS but are looking into Ceph https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/operations/issues/1

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Re:Dropbox as a Git Server by YorickPeterse on Monday April 25, 2016 @06:38PM (#11567960)
We're currently using 20 Azure instances to host GitLab.com. Git data is stored on an NFS server though I can't recall the exact setup from the top of my head.
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