[antileet]

For lightweight use among friends, I found that gogs works much better for me. Has a tiny subset of features but reliably creates/manages repos.

https://gogs.io/

[kuschku]

Sadly gogs for whatever reason doesn’t seem to actually use connection pooling or proper caching. It runs a new SQL query for every load of the "explore" site or a repo, which means I end up getting less requests/sec out of it than with gitlab.

[scaryclam]

Gogs is great. Gitea is a community fork of gogs if you're looking for more features as well.