Git Hosting

Gitea54.6k★

If you want to host your own Git repositories — your own GitHub, basically — without paying GitHub's per-seat pricing or trusting a third party with your code, Gitea gives you that. Issues, pull requests, code review, CI/CD (via Gitea Actions, compatible with GitHub Actions), wikis, packages, container registry. Self-hosted, single binary, runs on a Raspberry Pi. 54.6K stars, MIT license, Go. The lightest full-featured Git forge available. Needs only SQLite for small deployments (Postgres/MySQL for larger). Memory usage starts around 100MB. Gitea Actions added in 2023 brings GitHub Actions-compatible CI/CD, which was the last major feature gap. Fully free. No paid tier for the community edition. Gitea Ltd offers a cloud-hosted version and enterprise support, but the self-hosted product has no feature restrictions. Solo developers: free, and the setup takes 10 minutes. Great for personal projects you don't want on GitHub. Small teams: free, and it handles the collaboration features (PRs, code review, issues) well enough. Medium teams: free, but you'll want to think about backups and HA. Large orgs: Gitea works but evaluate GitLab for enterprise features (compliance, advanced CI/CD, security scanning). The catch: Gitea Actions is young compared to GitHub Actions — the ecosystem of reusable actions is smaller. The UI is functional but not as polished as GitHub or GitLab. And migration tooling from GitHub works but isn't perfect — some webhook configs and project boards don't transfer cleanly.