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Re: Ask HN: Private Git repo hosting?

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I use Gogs. Fast, very low resource usage, easy to install.

I've set up a small-ish Gogs server on a RPi and i beg to differ on the "easy to install" - this might be true if you can just get the packages and install it, but once you try to manually set it up you'll see that the docs are lacking, big time. And even if you've got it all set up: how are you supposed to update your install? IIRC, i've read somewhere that you're supposed to wipe & reinstall the whole thing (take t…

I just updated from 4.2 to 5.2.

No wipe, just overwrite some files and that's it.

Re: Ask HN: Private Git repo hosting?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Had you considered GitLab's free hosting?

I didn't consider hosting from GitLab at all. The thing I considered was that GitLab is an open-source project, so I can modify it the way I want ( I actually contributed a super small patch ( https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlab-ci-runner/pull/16 ) . Anyway free hosting for me for a platform that you can install on your server has always been a no-option, because I want to control the content.

So instead you'd rather choose a paid hosting account for a solution where you don't have that self-hosting option?
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