Comment by znpy

We did tun our own installation at work, supporting ~120 developers.

A single vm, 8 cpu cores and 64gb memory, using ssd disks on a local vmware cluster.

It worked okay but:

1. Was only exposed to the corporate network and some vpn connections

2. We did the upgrades late at night once every like six months, taking a snapshot of the whole thing from vmware side before touching anything

It worked pretty well and was relatively low maintenance. Frankly a very pleasant experience.

I’m using github and bitbucket at work nowadays and frankly i miss that experience, both as an user and as an administrator.

Edit: btw i left that job and that gitlab installation in 2022, no idea how things changed in the meantime.