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Disclaimer ! I enjoyed my Gitlab setup, some years ago … my machine slightly less ! I loved and still love to host my own tools but definitely, Gitlab was getting huge and huge - and for sure not because I was pushing lot of code - and update / upgrade became more and more painfully even if the .deb usage gave me a lot of comfort but well, for my usage, Gitlab was and is still too huge. I don’t want to promote non-OSS software so depending 100% on Github was not an option. GitHub is cool to show you have balls and a dick and you know how to use it but that’s not my cup of tea to promote my sexual life publicly and also, I want to keep my data free from any obscure clause. And recent bought of GitHub by Microsoft gave me confirmation that GH is not a safe place. Read more

Maybe you did not even bother to take a look at the URL but you are now looking at an URL into the domain of creamen.net. I bought this domain late of 2001 as a project I wanted to develop with a friend I meet at Jussieu … and then did not do a lot of it during the last two decades - which are not yet finished but the end is close … I am using it as my main email address since then, so I had to setup a bunch of stuff to make it alive and hosted it directly on internet on a permanent connection. I costed us - and then me - a lot at this time as we were using a dedicated machine - more precisely 2U machines in co-located 42U bay first in Paris and then Redbus in Courbevoie via Absolight running FreeBSD but my last attempt to get a powerful machine at low cost lead me to unreliable situation and lots of stress so I switched to a Dedibox late of the ‘2000, using Linux … So I hosted during these years my stuff on those - first owned and dedicated then co-rented only - machines. Read more