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.
SourceHut sounds very close to what you describe: https://sr.ht/
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.
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
Just hosting the code is hard now, right? The hosting company is signing up for a battle against infinite-appetite scraping organizations.
Unfortunately all the current managed offerings aren't very good. I'm still wondering why nobody starts a new startup
There are multiple alternatives to Github for example Gitlab, Codeberg or sourcehut
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.