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by camgunz 1430 days ago
Well it's a tradeoff right? Zero hassle, zero control. Lots of hassle, lots of control.

Part of the complexity is that the effects aren't all immediate, and humans aren't good at thinking long term. People put code on GH for years and then Microsoft took it and undermined those same developers. So it might seem like zero hassle right now, but it's probably big destruction later on.

Personally I'm growing an allergy to these kinds of "no catch, we promise" services. What they usually mean is "we sell your data to other marketers, governments, and potential bad actors", "we try to hypnotize you with ads", "we aren't actually giving you this thing and we'll delist it whenever we want", or worse.

I know this doesn't respond to your issue, my weak effort there is that are a fair number of hosts for things like nextcloud and gitlab. My brother runs a substantial suite of services all through Docker and admins it almost not at all. This stuff is possible, but I agree it's harder than signing into GH with SSO and pushing code. All I'm saying is that there are other costs, you just don't pay until way later.

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That's very true. I just wish there was a middle ground. I'd pay for a service that just runs a managed version of Gitea. Something similar to installing WordPress or a PHP bulletin board system to an old-fashioned web host. Hell, I could probably do just that if there was a super low end version of these types of services that will run with just PHP and Apache.

EDIT: Oh my god. I think I understand Sqlite and Fossil a little better now.

Was going to mention Fossil. It's not exactly comparable to Gitea, but as far as hosting code it might fit a lot of people's needs.
https://codeberg.org/ is managed gitea.
Looks like it's open source only.
I know how to set up and manage Gitea pretty well.

... maybe I should start a Gitea-as-a-service company.