Yet another Gitea self-hoster here. It mimics GitHub behavior so well that it’s pretty much directly compatible with GitHub Actions and everything. It has a tool built just for mass migrating repositories.

Forgejo/Codeberg. Something like that.

I’m currently self hosting Gitea and have had a great experience so far. Only took a day to setup and migrate all (6) of my repositories.

I am moving from GitHub to codeberg.

But if you prefer to self host, just install forjeio on your turf.

Gitea is great for selfhosting. Small footprint, very fast, extremely capable.

I also maintain a couple of Gitlab installations at work, but it’s a lot slower and uses more resources. I mean it’s good, but it’s very much a full fat option.

Bitbucket is very old and, eww, Atlassian - the exact opposite of a selfhost friendly company.

I mean, if you simply want your code to be available somewhere so that you can access it from anywhere/have a backup, you can just not use any “service” at all. Just make a bare git repo on your server and expose it via ssh.

Only if you really need the collaboration features should you be using these kind of services, otherwise you just don’t really need them. (I would use Forgejo from Codeberg.)

Check out onedev for a self hosted git server that includes tickets, ci/cd and security tools.

Codeberg is cozy 💛

Gitlab is a bit bloated

Bitbucket is too close to Jira for my taste

Gitea for selfhost maybe

You can self-host Forgejo and then also push to Codeberg.

Bitbucket, GitLab, and Gittea are too corporate. They’ll turn into SlopHub if given the chance.

Codeberg is a non-profit. And it’s growing. There are already big projects like Librewolf, Zig, Guix, and Comaps on Codeberg.

You can back up your shit yourself and do e2ee thru gitlab there are a lotta options not a big fan of gitlab just using their shit

If you have a truly gargantuan amount of notes (e.g.orgmode and roam etc) then Git is the way to go for conflict resolution btw