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What if you don't want to self host? Who offers low feature git hosting for a small price? Something like the old $7 account before github was bought by MS?

All I want is hosting and a read only web interface, plus access control in case I have collaborators.

All the offerings are enterprise priced because they offer "minutes of CI", "AI assistants" and other icing on the cake.

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SourceHut sounds very close to what you describe: https://sr.ht/

I’ve had my eye on this platform. Generally like their design and ethos too. However I find their code viewer/navigation a little hard for my eye. But maybe I’m just too used to GitHub.

Sure. If you really wanted to, I think the pages are simple enough that you could add your own CSS tweaks via a basic browser plugin (or whatever is the current go-to plugin for doing this).

For me, I only use a forge's viewer/navigation for cursory glances or sharing links to others. If I need to spend any real time digging, I'll clone the repo.

No one notices the part about private repos and access control...

You didn't mention private repos in your comment, but I guess that was implied in the $7 thing.

That said: SourceHut has private repos and access control.

> SourceHut has private repos and access control

... but not on the sr.ht link you gave. That's a list of projects like your average open source hosting landing page.

You have to click on the tiny sourcehut link at the top to see the real site.

Right, I always forget that the sr.ht link is to the application itself.

For anybody else who needs it, the page with info about the service is here: https://sourcehut.org/

SourceHut is good, and despite you not wanting to self host, self hosting a git repo is one of the easiest things to self host

Oh if you don't do the web interface thing you can just git init and set up a few ssh keys or fcgiwrap.

I'd pay a bit so I don't have to back it up. But not 20 per friend who might make a commit next year.

I have been using Framagit for a few years now. it has been online since 2016, it's the public Gitlab instance of Framasoft, a french non profit organization. RocketGit has been online since 2015 and relies on its own software, i have never used it but i have heard about it regularly.

https://framagit.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framasoft

https://rocketgit.com

This is literaly just a bare repo over ssh, and a gitweb interface.

It's too trivial for anyone to be selling that. And I don't think there's a large market for $5-$10 barebones setup when GH is free and you can self host.

Just like pikapods supports running things like actual budget for you - https://actualbudget.org/docs/install/pikapods

Something similar from them or digital ocean or linode or Hetzner would be a win.

Pika does offer Forgejo and Gitea.

I've used Pikapods to host my Forgejo instance for about a year and have had absolutely no complaints. I use it for small Godot projects and have used the Git plugin in the Godot asset store to connect to it, so I don't even have to leave the editor to make commits or branches.

I pay DigitalOcean $6/mo for a VM that started out as just that - a bare repo and ssh. If it was available at the time, I'd probably have paid $10 for the same if I didn't have to set up and administer the thing. I lost interest in administrating web servers in the early Apache 2.0 days so a private "mini-githib" would be tempting.

(I use that VM as my primary public nameserver now and I don't really need a web front end for git so I'll be keeping my current setup. But if it had been available back then, I'd probably have gone for it.)

I think Gitlab is probably the best option, or gitea. Personally I'm not a fan of Codeberg - I think their licensing is a mess.

Which licensing?

Their filter for projects being on their site is "we'll know it when we see it",

There are multiple alternatives to Github for example Gitlab, Codeberg or sourcehut

Just hosting the code is hard now, right? The hosting company is signing up for a battle against infinite-appetite scraping organizations.

CodeFloe https://codefloe.com/

Are you talking about something like source forge?

Unfortunately all the current managed offerings aren't very good. I'm still wondering why nobody starts a new startup

just put gitweb and slap cloudflare in front of it

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