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Why not create a mirror to Gitlab for example?

• gm 6y ago
  Sure. I just prefer to do it where I have 100% of control and not merely hand off from one third party to another. But whatever works. The point is to not be caught off guard when a critical provider decides to take unilateral action against you and then you're at their mercy.
• Aachen 6y ago
  For someone who casually wants to do this, Gitea is a lot lighter than gitlab to self host (and in my experience a breeze to install, but gitlab is probably the same).
  • Jnr 6y ago
    For some repositories that probably will be terminated on Github at some point, I have set up cloning on private Gitea instance. Disabled tree overwrite on some branches and have them backed up in case something else happens. So far I have never needed to use it, but it makes me feel better. And no, Gitlab is not as easy to maintain. You can probably set it up in Docker easily, but overall it has many moving parts and it requires more resource, while Gitea is just a single Golang binary and is a joy to use.