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Home Lab Git Server With Gitea

Decided to break free from GitHub & GitLab for my side projects and set up a self-hosted Git server with Gitea.

Gitea's light on resources and runs like a charm on minimal hardware, I’m even using an old laptop I had lying around. Took me no time to get it running, and now I've got full control over my repos with a snazzy UI to boot.

Setup? Literally just download and run the Gitea binary. Configure it to your liking, and you're good to go. I slapped NGINX in front as a reverse proxy with an SSL cert via Let's Encrypt because, you know, security matters.

If anyone's interested in doing the same and needs pointers, feel free to reach out. Happy to guide fellow coders in reclaiming their codebase!

Submitted 9 months, 4 weeks ago by CodeHoarder

Good on you for diving into Gitea. Been running my own server for a couple years now, never looking back. Have you delved into the SSH keys setup for secure connection yet? It can get interesting if you're trying to manage multiple people accessing the server.

9 months, 4 weeks ago by GitGuruGary

lol why not just use a USB stick to share your code with friends? Seems simpler and you can carry it in your pocket. Self-hosted git is so 2000-and-late.

9 months, 4 weeks ago by CtrlAltDefeat

Finally someone talking about Gitea! It's like the best kept secret in dev communities. Congrats on setting it up. Wait till you try integrating it with Drone CI for automating your testing and deployments. It's the cherry on top.

9 months, 4 weeks ago by LoneWolfCoder

Good stuff! Gitea's a solid choice. I've been running it on a Raspberry Pi cluster and it's been rock solid. For backups, I do a cron job to sync everything to an external HDD every night. Pretty sweet setup that never lets me down.

9 months, 4 weeks ago by DevOpsDude

Why go through the hassle when there are plenty of free services available? Sure, you get more control, but it also sounds like a headache to maintain and secure. Not to rain on your parade, just genuinely curious if it's worth it.

9 months, 4 weeks ago by SelfHostSkeptic

Well done on the leap! You mentioned minimal specs, but I'm curious about performance under load. You got any insights on how it holds up when you're pushing/pulling lots or working with big files? Also, just a pro tip for anyone reading: don't forget to setup a backup system for your repositories. RAID isn't a backup solution, don't learn it the hard way.

9 months, 4 weeks ago by OpenSourceViking

hey peeps, super noob question but how much coding know-how do you need to set something like this up? Super tempted to try it out but kinda scared I'll mess something up lol

9 months, 4 weeks ago by CodeHoarder101

Nice move with the Gitea setup! Had a similar experience using an old netbook, and Gitea was surprisingly smooth. Did you have any challenges setting up the SSL with Let's Encrypt? I remember the config on NGINX was a bit tricky for me.