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[โ€“] ashughes@feddit.uk 7 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah itโ€™s not hosted in the EU. From their privacy policy:

Sharing Personal Data Across National Borders. Our Services are hosted in the United States and information we collect will be stored and processed on our servers in the United States.

There are some smaller providers that also offer Git via Forgejo or Gitea like Disroot. That might be fit for private use, but I havenโ€™t personally tried it. Codeberg is great for more public facing FOSS projects but given their size Iโ€™d throw them a donation if youโ€™re going to depend on it beyond personal scale.

That said, I just selfhost Forgejo using Coolify on a VPS in my home country. My goal is to migrate at some point to self hosting in my home, eventually.

[โ€“] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Forgejo was really easy to set up with docker

[โ€“] wewbull@feddit.uk 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

It's easy without docker too. It's a single static binary.

[โ€“] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

I didn't try ๐Ÿคท prefer not to run bare metal but good to know!