Self-host your own GitHub alternative

GitHub used to be the place where developers would go to store their code and find new repositories. I have had a GitHub account for 11 years now, back then I had a lot less grey in my beard and the world was a lot simpler. For many, GitHub is still the only place where people store their code, but that is slowly changing. Thanks to AI, everyone and their gran, can now build software by simply prompting it. This has resulted in a massive amount of code being produced, mainly because some people think lines of code is a meaningful metric again and naturally all this code is being uploaded to GitHub. You might be thinking, “it can't be that bad, surely not everyone is addicted to the slop machine”. However, in GitHub's August blog post going over their 7-hour outage, they say that the number of commits per month has gone from 1.4 billion in April to 2.9 billion in August. It is definitely clear that GitHub is struggling under the load. However, that doesn't explain everything. It is…