That GitLab downtime happened when we had deadlines, luckily git isn't a centralised platform so we merged our changes on a new GitHub repo we created.

Also the GitLab sluggishness reminds me of their daemon which kills the server to control memory leaks[1], although this probably isn't the main cause of the platform's slowness.

[1]: https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2015/06/05/how-gitlab-uses-uni...