Gitlab is still super slow even compared to young projects like gogs. I know many ppl who shied away for gitlab due to its slowness.
If I was them, I would stop all copycat 'me too' features like ci/pages ect and put the resources to making it faster.
This is a sign that their features are pritorized by business ppl who want to put features on their slides .
We've made a lot of changes to GitLab in the last number of releases that make GitLab a whole lot faster [0], but we recognize that the performance of GitLab.com can still improve quite a bit.
For low-memory machines, we do recommend people to use Gogs.
This is the trouble for me using Gitlab.com. Feels like there is a lot of 'n+1' going on in the background. I'm sure there aren't, but it feels like a Rails app that is suffering from that.
Other than that it's great. I've moved nearly everything over from GitHub
gogs was designed from the start to be fast. Nothing but a rewrite would make GitLab as fast as gogs for basic stuff on small self-hosted servers. For basic uses, the resources required for the platform of GitLab (rails) is greater than the resources required to use all of gogs.
If I was them, I would stop all copycat 'me too' features like ci/pages ect and put the resources to making it faster. This is a sign that their features are pritorized by business ppl who want to put features on their slides .