[Stampo00]

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.

[spfzero]

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.

[machinerychorus]

https://codeberg.org/ is managed gitea.

[Stampo00]

Looks like it's open source only.

[corrral]

I know how to set up and manage Gitea pretty well.

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