Give me a rolling upgrade AWS/Rackspace/wherever (I choose) private hosted version of Gitlab with everything just working for under or equal to Github's USD$25/month and you have my business. Do a bulk deal, get some custom instances, lower the overheads. IMHO the pain of Gitlab (which I've used ~2008-now?) has always been unfamiliarity, UI obtuseness (recently vastly improved) and maintainability. Kill those - you're well on the way to doing so - and you'll gain market share quickly. You can even sell stuff like storage space, redundancy and global POPs as real time deployable add-on packages.
Did you know about https://githost.io/ ? It's managed by GitLab Inc and it's the closest you get from "Insert your credit card here, and hit a button" to get your own GitLab instance.
Hey wow that's just what I wanted! Only issue is it's $10 a month more than Github for the base setup, $15 extra for CI, while carrying hardware/storage limitations versus Github. https://githost.io/#pricing
