Richard Eisenberg
As it turns out, it was the wiki that directly inspired this post. But I had noticed the problem previously and wanted to say this for some time.
Yes, I should have clarified that I expect the charge to be recurring; pretend those figures are all per-year. If the problem is the gitlab implementation, and not our server power, then I agree there is no way for us to fix things.
Unfortunately the Wiki is a known performance problem-spot; it is indeed excruciatingly slow. I originally reported this as gitlab-ce#57179 [1] which upstream thinks they fixed in GitLab 11.8. However, as you note, things are still quite slow as of 12.0. I'll raise this with upstream. Cheers, - Ben [1] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/57179