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Not everyone can afford to self host a secure Gitea. Codeberg is a non-profit (German e.V.) that is a libre alternative to github/gitlab/bitbucket and has speci
by FlyingSnake 4y ago
Not everyone can afford to self host a secure Gitea. Codeberg is a non-profit (German e.V.) that is a libre alternative to github/gitlab/bitbucket and has special focus on privacy and data protection. A close example would be OSM foundation.
- aliqot 4y ago> Not everyone can afford to self host a secure Gitea. ..what??
- Macha 4y agoA VPS to do that is $120/yr. While nothing for a professionally employed software developer in the west, some of us contributed to open source back when we were broke high schoolers and would like the current generation to be able to also, while others have less fortunate economic situations. Also let's say 4 hours/month of amortised maintenence. Some people just aren't willing to spend that time, and while I self host a lot, I can't blame them
- aorth 4y ago> A VPS to do that is $120/yr Minor nitpick: I've been running gitea on a $5/mo VPS for a few dozen personal projects and it's incredibly performant. I was also a starving student once and I appreciated the people who supported open source before me. Now I support dozens (with time AND money) as well! Also, maybe aliquot's question was more about the "secure"?
- layer8 4y agoI’m running a Gitea instance (along with other stuff) on a $3.25 per month ($39 per year) VPS with zero maintenance thanks to Debian security auto-updates and Certbot. Alternatively, you could use a RasPi, or whatever hardware you have at home, with a free DynDNS service.