I’m looking to self-host a GitHub alt on a cheap Linux VPS for personal use. Any rec?
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I use gitea, it works fine.
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
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 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.
For personal use https://forgejo.org/ or https://gogs.io/ should be enough
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.
I came here to say this
Gitea also has webhooks so you can use it with Portainer to update Docker Compose container stacks from repo.
i’d reccomend forgejo a fork of gitea
The doc is pretty good
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.
I use gitea and it’s great, I would recommand having a good backup système if you care about your repos though
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!
I’d definetly recommend GitLab too - but it’s not lightweight.
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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.
Heard lots of good things about Forgejo!
If you don’t need the web gui stuff (and you shouldn’t for personal use) you can set up a git server using gitolite. Very easy to manage
And if you really want even more barebones, you can just do
git init --bareinto a directory on your VPS, and thengit clone user@your.ip.here:path/to/the/directoryand use git as you would normally!and you shouldn’t for personal use
Nonsense. I like to see how my CI is going.
Most of the Web GUIs are designed for interaction/collaboration between multiple people, and are massive overkill for one person. Tools like gitk/git gui are more than enough to see what’s going on graphically.
If you want to install all the other stuff, that’s completely up to you, but a lot of people don’t seem to realise that the Web GUI stuff and command line are completely separate things, and you don’t have to install both of them.
What about gitlab? Isn’t that the same as GitHub? If not I’ll need to see how they are different.
Gitlab isn’t really lightweight. It is cool, but not lightweight.
Ahh ok, I know the other team deployed it in our openshift environment so wasn’t sure.
Yeah. It needs 3gb ram, now. That’s about 1/10th what a Windows VM needs to boot, seemingly, but still large.
I’d recommend Forgejo/Gitea as others have mentioned or https://sourcehut.org (instance available at https://sr.ht/)
