Selfhost your own gitea instance - selfhosted, lightweight github alternative | 4rkal's blog
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In this article I’ll walk you through how you can run your own gitea instance. But first What is gitea? Gitea is a painless selfhosted Git service. It is written in Go and is extremely lightweight. I run a gitea instance on my Le Potato and it barely uses any resources. Why use gitea (vs GitHub, GitLab etc) I started running my own Gitea instance because I wanted a private place to host my Obsidian notes.

I’ve recently set up my own Gitea instance and I figured I’d share a simple guide on how to do it yourself. Hopefully this will be helpful to anyone looking to get started.

If you have any feedback please feel free to comment it bellow.

@PenisDuckCuck9001@lemmynsfw.com
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Thanks, I always keep forgetting what this ones called. I use a build of gitea from before it became shit but I keep telling myself I need to change to “that better one”.

zelifcam
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Same. It’s been on my list for too long.

@bastion@feddit.nl
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If it helps, it’s supposed to be a drop-in replacement.

@PlexSheep@infosec.pub
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It’s a hard fork by now, but the switch should still be pretty painless.

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