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Suggestion: Don't.*

But, if you have your mind set: GitLab is great.

(It WILL break at one point or another, and you will need to do recovery)

Hasn't broken for me, using it for a few years now. Are you talking of gitlab breaking specifically? Maybe that's the difference, since I use gitea instead.

Self hosted gitlab breaks all the time, at least for us. Maybe had ~10 significant issues just the last few months.

I keep expecting mine to break, but hasn't missed a beat in 2+ years.

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