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In this article I’ll walk you through how you can run your own gitea instance. But first What is gitea? Gitea is a painless selfhosted Git service. It is written in Go and is extremely lightweight. I run a gitea instance on my Le Potato and it barely uses any resources. Why use gitea (vs GitHub, GitLab etc) I started running my own Gitea instance because I wanted a private place to host my Obsidian notes.

I’ve recently set up my own Gitea instance and I figured I’d share a simple guide on how to do it yourself. Hopefully this will be helpful to anyone looking to get started.

If you have any feedback please feel free to comment it bellow.

  • Neshura@bookwormstory.socialEnglish
    1536·
    4 months ago

    I’ll be that guy: Use forgejo instead, its main contributor is a Non-Profit compared to Gitea’s For-Profit owners

    • 4rkal@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      234·
      4 months ago

      Silly question but what is the problem with gitea being for profit?

      • 9point6@lemmy.worldEnglish
        65·
        4 months ago

        I guess out of fear that we get another gitlab situation, where the open source offering has a load of key features eventually kept behind a paywall

      • slazer2au@lemmy.worldEnglish
        392·
        4 months ago

        At some point they will do a Redis or Terraform and say no more open source, pay us to use it.

        All contributions are now owned by us and not by the person who wrote it.

      • Neshura@bookwormstory.socialEnglish
        19·
        4 months ago

        As the other commenter already said it’s an abundance of caution. GItea is already moving in the direction of SaaS and an easily self-hostable solution runs counter to that plan (Gitea is already offering a managed Cloud so this is not a hypothetical). One thing that has already happened is Gitea introducing a Contributor License Agreement, effectively allowing them to change the license of the code at any time.