I’m looking to self-host a GitHub alt on a cheap Linux VPS for personal use. Any rec?
I use gitea, it works fine.
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.
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.
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 😅
@[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 run forgejo on my shitty vps and for the amount of features it has it is surprisingly lightweight, i love it so much
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.
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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.
I use gitea and it’s great, I would recommand having a good backup système if you care about your repos though
Gitea also has webhooks so you can use it with Portainer to update Docker Compose container stacks from repo.
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.
The majority of maintainers stayed with Gitea. Forgejo is not the tip, they still pull the majority of their commit from gitea directly.
Maybe, depends on the migration path. Gitea proved impossible to migrate to.
Could you not just push a git repo?
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).
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’d reccomend forgejo a fork of gitea
The doc is pretty good
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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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’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
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.
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 [email protected]: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.
