As of the middle of 2015 GitLab was hosted on a single c3.8xlarge AWS instance in Frankfurt.<p>See <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;about.gitlab.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;03&#x2F;09&#x2F;moving-all-your-data&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;about.gitlab.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;03&#x2F;09&#x2F;moving-all-your-data&#x2F;</a><p>Perhaps their scaling strategy has improved since then.