Until recently, we had our central git repositories hosted on a virtual machine. This was running on a big, noisy, rack mounted server. We started thinking about cutting down the number of machines we use on a daily basis (Just can’t stop optimizing). The opportunity popped up during an office move to our new location. We had discussed this idea in a few meetings before, but for various reasons, they were not acted upon. During the move Umar started hacking on GitLab to get it working for us internally. The office move came as a blessing in disguise. He used one of our old Dell Inspiron laptops that was just gathering dust. We ordered new DDR2 (yes, DDR2) RAM for it and installed …