[FFmpeg-devel] [POLL] [VOTE] code.ffmpeg.org

[Timo Rothenpieler]

On 7/13/2025 5:57 PM, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On Sun, Jul 13, 2025 at 01:58:44PM +0200, Timo Rothenpieler wrote:
> [...]
> 
>> Just want to note that hosting Gitlab is quite a bit more expensive than
>> Forgejo, for which I'm currently just paying out of pocket.
>> So for an official Gitlab test setup, I'd occasionally forward accumulated
>> bills for refund by SPI.
> 
> Can you elaborate on the source of this additional cost ?

It's written in Ruby, which is not exactly fast or light on resources.
The recommended minimum instance Gitlab defines is one with 16GB RAM and 
8 cores.
Gitlab also does not officially support running on aarch64, though it 
does supposedly work, you'd be on your own supporting that setup.

So while a Forgejo instance suitable for our expected usage can run on 
an CAX21 instance (4 CPUs, 8GB RAM, aarch64) which costs 7,13€ a month, 
the Gitlab minimum specs demand a CX42 or CPX41 instance for 18,92€ or 
29,39€ a month (both are 8CPU, 16GB RAM, the more expensive "P" one 
being faster AMD CPUs, the non P one Intel).
The Intel CPUs are likely fine, performance wise, but it's still almost 
triple the cost at a minimum.

If Gitlab could run on aarch64 the respective CAX31 instance would cost 
only 14,27€ a month.