If GitLab plays their cards right, they can take the market from github. That, in my book, will be good because unlike github, we can all contribute to making GitLab better.
The only question left is if your servers are powerful enough to run gitlab. Maybe I'll sacrifice a goat for some new server hardware and 256GB of ram.
By the way, I don't want to troll you, but at my company we use Gitlab 6 self hosted version and I wasn't able to do a simple git push origin master
the repo I held in my machine was barely 5MB and still remote server closed connection HTTP 500
I solved it by increasing the POST buffer.
I never had this issue with github, maybe you can check why it was an issue with gitlab? it might help to advance your product!
GitLab introduced a new web server (gitlab-workhorse) in 8.0 that's better at handling large HTTP requests. I would suggest upgrading (not just for that reason, there have been tons of improvements and security updates).
The only question left is if your servers are powerful enough to run gitlab. Maybe I'll sacrifice a goat for some new server hardware and 256GB of ram.