[godber]

I’ve kind of anticipated this sentiment and have been thinking about providing Gitea hosting. Though I’ve been a little discouraged by Gitea’s release of their own cloud hosting service.

This blog post and the revenue growth at Gitlab over the last two quarters appear to be evidence of people wanting to moving away from GitHub (though their earnings report attribute the growth to other initiatives, clearly I had no real insight on this). As an extension of my self hosting of Mastodon efforts from last year I rolled up my other minor hosting efforts into https://hawt.cloud as a place to experiment with providing services like this.

This all ties in with the “Open Web” or “Small Web” sentiments I’ve seen expressed recently. The hyperscalers are locking more and more up into their ecosystems but there should still exist small vendors/hosting/service providers. They’ll never scale or be as reliable as the big guys but if they cease to exist a lot will be lost.