I think I would really enjoy working with GitLab, but a while ago I tried to set up an instance on my own server and it was a real pain... Then, once I finally got it running, it turned out to hog incredible amounts of resources even when doing absolutely nothing. So I gave it the kick.

If I were the sysadmin for a large-ish organization and had a dedicated server for nothing but code hosting, I would definitely go with them. But for my own private purposes it wasn't the right choice.