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nottorptoday at 1:53 PM7 repliesview on HN

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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senkotoday at 1:57 PM

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.

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epicidetoday at 1:54 PM

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

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maccardtoday at 1:56 PM

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.

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mghackerladytoday at 2:18 PM

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

bee_ridertoday at 2:02 PM

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

0xbadcafebeetoday at 1:55 PM

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

that_lurkertoday at 1:57 PM

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