I’m looking to self-host a GitHub alt on a cheap Linux VPS for personal use. Any rec?

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    Strong recommend for Forgejo. It’s a community fork of gitea that’s actively maintained by the community and a great open source nonprofit.

    It’s actually a drop in replacement for gitea if you are using that now.

    Super lightweight. Super snappy, and it supports GitHub Actions style CI/CD.

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      Big +1 for Forgejo, also they are actively working on implementing Federation, i.e. in the future Forgejo servers will be able to exchange information as a federated network, just like good old Lemmy 😊 If you want to try the toolchain (Forgejo+Woodpecker CI), it’s what Codeberg.org (run by the German nonprofit organization of the same name) offers freely.

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          This will allow you to browse & contribute to projects hosted on other instances without having an account there. Imagine using the GitHub search to find a project on Gitlab, then opening an issue there without ever even leaving GitHub. The protocol is called ForgeFed.

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      The actions are amazing, and I was also able to integrate them with tailscale so I can build and deploy everything within my network automatically.
      I run it in a vps with 1cpu and 2gb ram along several other services.

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      This is actually a good idea! No need to over engineer stuff 😅

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        @khoi@slrpnk.net if you’re okay with that I suggest you check out this https://gitolite.com/gitolite/overview.html.

        In short “Gitolite allows you to setup git hosting on a central server, with fine-grained access control and many more powerful features.”. It doesn’t require some background daemon running, uses the server’s SSH and it is a simple script that deals with access control so you can easily manage your users and repositories. The “cherry on top” is that you control your git “server” using a git repository :P

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      I recommend against gogs. It’s missing lots of features that I expected and I ended up switching to gitea anyways. Gitea works well for everything I need and forgejo is a fork of gitea that I might switch to in the future.

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        I’d recommend forgejo, it’s a fork of gitea and unlike gitea actually a piece of free software. Gitea is developed (and the gitea.io site operated) by Gitea Limited. Whether or not that’s a problem is up to you but I’d just like to highlight GitLab’s recent move(s) to repeatedly increase subscription/hosting costs by various means as a potential future of Gitea. Forgejo is mainly developed by Codeberg e.V. which is a non-profit so enshittification is somewhat less likely.

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    Gitea also has webhooks so you can use it with Portainer to update Docker Compose container stacks from repo.

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    I use gitea and it’s great, I would recommand having a good backup système if you care about your repos though

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    Here’s another plug for gitea. It’s lightweight, but still has a nice feature set.

    I tried hosting GitLab a number of years back, but it was more resource hungry than my host machine could handle well.

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    As a dumb user I like gitlab! It’s responsive, clean, legible, and pretty easy to navigate compared to others. Also anything that supports git clone because it’s pretty nice for manually building stuff on arch.

    I don’t know what your project is or if it’s going to be public but that’s my vote if it is!

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    Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

    Fewer Letters More Letters
    Git Popular version control system, primarily for code
    SSD Solid State Drive mass storage
    SSH Secure Shell for remote terminal access
    VPS Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)

    4 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 4 acronyms.

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    Forgejo is my go to, I ran it in a GCP micro instance, which has 768 MB ram and a piddling processor. One of my friends works for a company that had all their devs run a local instance in addition to the main repo, it was that light.

    Gitea is the former go to, but gitea was hijacked and stolen from the community by a for profit company. Forgejo is currently a drop in replacement fork, but with added privacy features, future federation options, and a reputable parent organization.