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Additional note on Codeberg, which I think is great as a project, but I got curious on what infrastructure they are running on and how reliable this would be fo

Additional note on Codeberg, which I think is great as a project, but I got curious on what infrastructure they are running on and how reliable this would be for larger corporate repos. Nov 22, 2025 https://blog.codeberg.org/letter-from-codeberg-onwards-and-upwards.html https://blog.codeberg.org/letter-from-codeberg-onwards-and-u... Quotes from their website: Infrastructure status [...] We are running on 3 servers, one Gigabyte and 2 Dell servers (R730 and R740). Here's their current hardware: https://codeberg.org/Codeberg-Infrastructure/meta/src/branch/main/hardware https://codeberg.org/Codeberg-Infrastructure/meta/src/branch... [...] Although aged, the performance (and even energy efficiency) is often not much worse than with new hardware that we could afford. In the interest of saving embodied carbon emissions from hardware manufacturing, we believe that used hardware is the more sustainable path. [...] We are investigating how broken Apple laptops could be repurposed into CI runners. After all, automated CI usage doesn't depend on the same factors that human beings depend on when using a computer (functioning screen, speakers, keyboard, battery, etc.). If you own a broken M1/M2 device or know someone who does, and believe that it is not worth a conventional repair, we would be happy to receive your hardware donation and give it a try! [...] While it usually holds up nicely, we see sudden drop in performance every few days. It can usually be "fixed" with a simple restart of Forgejo to clear the backlog of queries. Gives both early-Google as well as hackerspace vibes, which can or can not be a good thing.

kachapopopow 11mo ago
oh wow I had a larger cluster than that since I was 20 more than half a decade ago, considering that the costs appear to be so low maybe I should also pop out few free services since at the moment I pay $600+ just on power costs alone for idle hardware on my personal cluster. If anyone has any ideas feel free to email me at: news.ycombinator.com.reassure132@passmail.net
- giancarlostoro 11mo ago
  Maybe you could reach out to the codeberg folks and loan them a server? Sounds like they could use all the help they can get.
  - culi 11mo ago
    Codeberg is a non-profit btw You can donate here: https://donate.codeberg.org/ https://donate.codeberg.org/ Setup recurring donations on liberapay: https://liberapay.com/codeberg/donate https://liberapay.com/codeberg/donate Or join as a member here: https://join.codeberg.org/ https://join.codeberg.org/
dlisboa 11mo ago
https://status.codeberg.eu/status/codeberg https://status.codeberg.eu/status/codeberg Their reliability is not great unfortunately. Currently their 24h uptime is 89% for the main site. They are partially degraded right now. The 14 day uptime is 98% but I think that’s actually because some of their auxiliary systems have great uptime, the main site is never that great it seems.
- bramhaag 11mo ago
  This isn't a great time for them: https://social.anoxinon.de/@Codeberg/115652289949965925 https://social.anoxinon.de/@Codeberg/115652289949965925 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46131693 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46131693
  - dlisboa 11mo ago
    Yeah, they were down last week too. It's hard to run an open git forge on a small volunteer team, the workload is read and write heavy with endless "customers" (or bots).
layer8 11mo ago
To be fair, Codeberg isn’t for corporate repos, it’s for FLOSS projects. Take a look at their Terms of Use. They don’t aim to be a commercial provider, rather the opposite.
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kachapopopow 11mo ago

oh wow I had a larger cluster than that since I was 20 more than half a decade ago, considering that the costs appear to be so low maybe I should also pop out few free services since at the moment I pay $600+ just on power costs alone for idle hardware on my personal cluster. If anyone has any ideas feel free to email me at: news.ycombinator.com.reassure132@passmail.net

giancarlostoro 11mo ago
Maybe you could reach out to the codeberg folks and loan them a server? Sounds like they could use all the help they can get.
- culi 11mo ago
  Codeberg is a non-profit btw You can donate here: https://donate.codeberg.org/ https://donate.codeberg.org/ Setup recurring donations on liberapay: https://liberapay.com/codeberg/donate https://liberapay.com/codeberg/donate Or join as a member here: https://join.codeberg.org/ https://join.codeberg.org/

dlisboa 11mo ago

https://status.codeberg.eu/status/codeberg https://status.codeberg.eu/status/codeberg Their reliability is not great unfortunately. Currently their 24h uptime is 89% for the main site. They are partially degraded right now. The 14 day uptime is 98% but I think that’s actually because some of their auxiliary systems have great uptime, the main site is never that great it seems.

bramhaag 11mo ago
This isn't a great time for them: https://social.anoxinon.de/@Codeberg/115652289949965925 https://social.anoxinon.de/@Codeberg/115652289949965925 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46131693 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46131693
- dlisboa 11mo ago
  Yeah, they were down last week too. It's hard to run an open git forge on a small volunteer team, the workload is read and write heavy with endless "customers" (or bots).

layer8 11mo ago

To be fair, Codeberg isn’t for corporate repos, it’s for FLOSS projects. Take a look at their Terms of Use. They don’t aim to be a commercial provider, rather the opposite.

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