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Hosting on gitly.io for $1/user/month (if more than 5 users).

For self-hosting maybe I'll go the GitLab route, which I don't really like. I think the product should have the same set of features for all customers. Maybe I'll just go for paid extended support. We'll see.

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I've thought about this in the past, and I would do something where features are delayed 6 months to a year to the community version.

i have generally seen that a piece of software that is built for self-deployment is not optimized for scalability. in fact, optimizing for scalability screws around with ease of deployment.

It will be interesting to see you pull this off if you are indeed thinking of making your software dual purpose - self deploy as well run a scaleable/fault-tolerant hosting company.

You are right, these are two very different tasks. That's what makes solving this fun and challenging. I had it in mind when I was designing the architecture of gitly. In the end it really is going to be easily deployed and scalable.

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