I’m looking to self-host a GitHub alt on a cheap Linux VPS for personal use. Any rec?
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I personally use Gitea. It’s really nice, and it stays out of the way until you need it.
Forgejo vs Gitea 🧐? Considering…
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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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)
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Gogs and Gitea are very similiar, Gitea is a fork of Gogs with a bit more features as I understand it.
However when I tried to get Gitea working personally a year and a half ago, it had some rough issues with redirect looping onto itself infinitely, could never get it to work.
On the other hand Gogs didn’t have this issue, and was much more painless to stand up, so it’s what I use now.
Used gogs, it was… fine. Made the jump to Gitea and it’s just amazing. Not that it does anything really different, but you can tell it’s much more polished. Gogs just felt like a CS student’s final project, Gitea is something I could use at work.
They genuinely looked identical to me.
Either way, gogs dies what I need it to, git server for backing up my code and super basic git web Hooks to trigger my build server.
Couldn’t ask for anything more.
I setup Gogs once like 6 years ago or something lol, I remember it being pretty easy and it is nice. Although if Gitea is more actively maintained then it’s probably worth giving that a shot first.
I’ve spun up Gitea in my homelab as well as at work and don’t recall being difficult so perhaps they fixed whatever was causing your issue
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.
Heard lots of good things about Forgejo!
How cheap are we talking? OneDev is awesome but is recommended to have 2gb ram - the more repos and larger code bases might eventually need more ram.
Memory vCPUs Transfer SSD 1 GiB 1 vCPU 1,000 GiB 25 GiB
Gitea.
Isn’t this a spin-off of gogs?
I still need to convert.
Apparently. When I wound up choosing Gitea for my own purposes, I don’t recall even learning about Gogs somehow.
I picked gogs before I knew about the gitea fork. (Maybe even before the fork)
Skip it and go right to forgejo : it’s the current tip of the iceberg.
Maybe, depends on the migration path. Gitea proved impossible to migrate to.
Could you not just push a git repo?
It was even easier. I’m over on forgejo, works.
Sure, but then I’d have to remove gogs 1st after exporting everything. It’s not a lot of data, but loads of repos. For me there was no reason to migrate (yet).
The majority of maintainers stayed with Gitea. Forgejo is not the tip, they still pull the majority of their commit from gitea directly.
i'd reccomend forgejo a fork of gitea
The doc is pretty good
If you don’t need the web interface and just want a feature rich git server I recommend Soft Serve. It has a really cool ssh TUI as well.
This is cool!
i run forgejo on my shitty vps and for the amount of features it has it is surprisingly lightweight, i love it so much
I use gitea and it’s great, I would recommand having a good backup système if you care about your repos though
If you just want a remote to push your code to without issues, projects, pull requests and such you can use git only: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-on-the-Server-Setting-Up-the-Server
This is actually a good idea! No need to over engineer stuff 😅
Yup K.I.S.S
@[email protected] 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
I’d recommend Forgejo/Gitea as others have mentioned or https://sourcehut.org (instance available at https://sr.ht/)
I haven’t installed it yet, but I’m going to try out Gitness for this: https://docs.gitness.com/
I have now installed it and I like it.
if their service runs as poorly as their website I’ll give that a pass
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.
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.
what’s the benefits of being federated for code?
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.
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.
Stagit and cgit, just the very best! If you want a github like UI, there is Gogs.
