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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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