I think it's getting 10 minutes years old to this day.
It doesnt take long to set up iirc, the problem when I used gitlab was it was resource intensive. It somehow takes a 10$mo instance when it should be able to run as a side process on a 2.50$mo server imo. 10$mo was the same pricing as github so it didn't make sense to use.
Honestly for resource efficient Git service people should use (and I've seen it shared places lately) Gitea or Gogs. Gitea is a fork of Gogs but picked up pace and has multiple maintainers who care a lot for it. It uses minimal resources and looks good. $2.50 server on Vultr with 512MB RAM should cover it.