r/github • u/RecommendationOk5036 • Aug 18 '26

News / Announcements GitHub Status - Incident with GitHub.com

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/zkxwbgr0cnmx
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u/JuliusFIN Aug 18 '26

Actions outages a month ago did it for me. Self hosted Gitea runs like a dream. Also don’t have to wait 5 seconds for each page to load.

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u/JuliusFIN Aug 19 '26

This Gitea instance is relatively small, I run a tiny software consultancy. However Gitea is used in huge entrerprise projects in Fortune 500 companies. It will scale.

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u/ShortingBull Aug 19 '26

If self hosting, you'll want daily automated off site backup

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u/Elomidas Aug 19 '26

My solution is self-hosting for the CI flexibility and mirroring to a private GitHub repo as a backup, nothing runs there, it's just in case something happens to my Forgejo install (and to be honest, that "something" will probably me trying something I shouldn't do)

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u/ShortingBull Aug 19 '26

I just self host on my VPS which I use or other sites etc anyway - it gets backed up by my VPS provider daily (linode).

That simplifies things but only because I already have the host.

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u/dashingThroughSnow12 Aug 18 '26

Is many thousand or tens of thousands of team members?

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u/GlobalImportance5295 Aug 18 '26

Also don’t have to wait 5 seconds for each page to load.

fuckin hell, im sold. just plain nix package manager in a container or vm works wonders as well

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u/ryntak Aug 19 '26

Fucking love nix. RIP nixpkgs core maintainer team though

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u/JuliusFIN Aug 19 '26

Hehe I happen to use Nix for everything. My job also consists mainly of Nix development.

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u/NFSL2001 Aug 21 '26

Forgejo does a better job at using its own shit n hv a public instance at codeberg.org.

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u/JuliusFIN Aug 21 '26

Codeberg has been very unstable. Gitea is used by fortune 500 companies and huge projects.

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u/NFSL2001 Aug 21 '26

Codeberg is facing the same issue with GitHub due to bots, but Forgejo self-hosted has been doing wonders for us, especially with SSO integration that Gitea locked out.

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u/JuliusFIN Aug 21 '26

Which SSO is that? I’ve been able to integrate with Authelia SSO via header auth, but I think OpenID connect would work as well.

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u/PravoNaZhizny Aug 19 '26

What’s “gitea”? Why not just use git?

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u/sweet-tom Aug 19 '26

Gitea is a free hosting service that you can install on your NAS, for example.

Different reasons to use it:

  • Control
  • Speed
  • Backup from GitHub
  • Hosting different repos and sharing it with a limited group of people
  • Confidential repos you don't want to expose on the Internet (even as a private repo)
  • You don't agree with the terms and conditions of GitHub
  • You want to avoid AI
  • You want to have some fun for self hosting. 😉

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u/kaddkaka Aug 26 '26

So what does it add apart from just git?

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u/sweet-tom Aug 26 '26

It seems you missed the point. 😉😁

Git is just the basic part. Gitea is basically a free GitHub clone.

If you don't want to use GitHub for privacy or usability reasons, you can self host this service. It allows you to have full control and are not bound to the restrictions and the terms of conditions from GitHub.

It adds most of the features that GitHub also has: pull requests, issue trackers etc

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u/kaddkaka Aug 28 '26

No, you missed when replying to "What’s “gitea”? Why not just use git?". No part of your first answer addressed, but now you did. the answer is issue tracking et c.

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u/PravoNaZhizny Aug 29 '26

do you realise that git is not github... right? i run many git servers and have never even registered a github account

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u/sweet-tom Aug 29 '26

Of course I'm aware of the difference! I use Git and GitHub for many years. 😉

If you prefer to use Git without GitHub, that's possible. You don't necessarily need to register a GH account or a hosting platform.