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Questions about selfhosting Git, and making some small scratch on the side. (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by weirdbeardgame@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Basically, what the title says. I'm a C, C+, C# ... Basically, a C languages dev. Work on Video Games mostly, but I like doing other projects as well. Working on some larger ones like in Unreal and Godot that need some big boy space / CI time so I've set off on a small self hosting journey.

Got Nginx set up with Gitea at the moment, but am open to Gitlab, etc.

I was wondering if it's easy to setup these services for LFS space / CI runtime rental for a few buddies of mine just to handle management and potential rental costs depending on how far that goes.

I'm also wondering if Gitea or GitLab would be better for an endeavor like this? And I realize I wouldn't make a huge profit or anything, this would mostly be to mitigate maintenance costs and give my buddies some good deals on CI run time for Unreal or Godot Exports.

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[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago

I like gogs. Automated backups and then deployment seemed super easy with gogs but not so with gitea.

Gitlab seemed like a heavy weight for my needs.

You do you regarding hosting for friends. I wouldn't do it. I self host as much stuff as I can and I'm happy to bear the responsibility for my own stuff, but taking responsibility for someone elses stuff and access to that stuff is a whole other level.

One thing I've learned over the years, is that making something work today is only a small part of the job. Ensuring that it works every day for the next 5 years is the real challenge.