Comment by krob

I highly recommend people consider self-hosting with phabricator. It's php-based, and if you have a ESXi or proxmox or digital ocean / linode instance, it's a very simple system to install & update, uses all the same LAMP stack everyone is used to, supports ssh/http based push/pull workflows, git,svn,mecurial repos, same type of authentication as github/gitlab/bitbucket, but biggest part of all, its PHP based, written to a very high standard through & through. Has the ability to scale insane amount of workers & cluster configurations. I've never had it once hiccup on me. Yes, if you import a project with hundred thousand+ commits, it will take a while to import, because it builds records for the entire commit history of the repo, it doesn't generate them the moment you view. So this will take time to back populate into the phabricator system, but once you have an imported repo, it has event system that is unlike any you may have ever used. It takes some time to get used to it, but organizations like CircleCI have a tutorial on how to integrate simple CI workflow using Harbomaster. https://circleci.com/docs/1.0/phabricator/ Also as of php7.x phabricator runs even faster than ever before. It also has it's own Trello Board style system, and it has a much more powerful issue system than gitlab/github. Tickets can have parent/children, and repos never specifically belong to any one project, but rather projects can have many repos. It also has integration with 2FA. It has a Question & Answers section, wiki, pre-code-commit audits. Lot of really big open source communities use it. A fairly large list of big companies using it are shown on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phabricator