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The self-hosting story is pretty good(TM). It's not turn-key, and there is not an installer. You need to run through the steps manually, which are documented here:

https://man.sr.ht/installation.md

Most people get this done in an hour or two, sometimes with the help of #sr.ht on irc.freenode.net. It's also often made easier by the fact that you can skip any services you don't need, like paste hosting or wikis. By making you go through the steps and set it up, it makes sure to leave you with an understanding of the pieces and how they fit together, so you're better equipped to deal with it if/when it breaks and to adapt it to your particular circumstances. After you set it up, upgrades are usually pretty painless, you just run `apk upgrade` and it takes care of the rest. In general, I think this approach makes a lot more sense than the turn-key Dockerized approach.

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Thank you - I followed a link that said "open source" and it took me to a list of repositories (which is nice, we all like open source) - but I apparently didn't land on the install-link (to be fair, I didn't look very hard).

I'm not sure I'm a fan of many approaches I've seen (gitlab omnibus is not a docker install, BTW).

You appear to be supporting alpine Linux - and also Debian derived systems - via packackes?

Packages, obviously, is a nice way to install software... If I wanted an appliance - I should set up an alpine vm, install source-hut components I like, point it at a managed postgres instance and a smart mail host - and assume I'll only ever need to do rolling updates via apk - and distro upgrades via alpine?

Is running on Debian likely to be as smooth?

If you remember where you found that link, let me know, so I can update it.

>Packages, obviously, is a nice way to install software... If I wanted an appliance - I should set up an alpine vm, install source-hut components I like, point it at a managed postgres instance and a smart mail host - and assume I'll only ever need to do rolling updates via apk - and distro upgrades via alpine?

Yeah, that's about right. Upgrades are done just by running your normal package manager updates.

>Is running on Debian likely to be as smooth?

The Debian repository is community-maintained, but the maintainer does a good job and a few people have reported sucess using his packages. We also set it up so that upstream releases automatically update the Debian repo. You'll have to depend on him for support, though, not me - his nick is dlax and he hangs out in #sr.ht on irc.freenode.net; and his email is given on the package page. He's a helpful fellow.

Alpine Linux is indeed the officially supported platform, though, and I highly recommend it. I wouldn't dream of running a different system in production, Alpine is simple and reliable and it's easy to fit the whole thing into your head.

Thank you.

> If you remember where you found that link, let me know, so I can update it.

I belive it was the "100% free and open source" link in this very post:

https://sourcehut.org/blog/2020-04-30-the-sourcehut-hub-is-l...

Which goes to: https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/?search=sr.ht

Which does indeed link the repos - which is good - but from a mindset of "how do I self-host?" maybe a bit bare bones.

Looks like if one follows any of the repo links - the install info is at the bottom. May be an artifact of me being on my phone.

As I said, I didn't look very hard.

I really appreciate the no-nonsense/no hype vibe - but at the same time, I really do want a "here's a sane way to get up and running" front and center.

Now, obviously there's a hosted offering - but at my current company we have a few projects that we feel more comfortable self-hosting due to the nature of some of our customers. For some, we avoid third parties, where we can.

Thanks for the tip! I've updated that URL to the following, which is much more helpful:

https://sr.ht/~sircmpwn/sourcehut

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