Thoughts on Self-Hosting Git

Over the years, I’ve considered self-hosting a Git service multiple times. At the moment, virtually all of my code lives on GitHub, both private and public repositories. However, I never ended up doing it, and always because of some half-arsed excuse. But maybe I’m closer to doing it now. I’ve been running a few services on Nata.café for some time now, and a Git service would probably be one of the most obvious things to run there. Yet, I haven’t done it. For quite some time, I even had a redirect set up from git.hacdias.com/${path} to github.com/hacdias/${path} for quick linking in case I ever decided to self-host Git. I don’t have that many reasons to self-host a Git service, except for finding it cool. Well, I’d probably argue that the global dependency on GitHub will eventually end up being a bad decision, especially considering how unreliable it has been over the past few years. So yeah, just a mirror of my code that is not on my machine. The issue with that is that I don’t have…

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