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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by donkeyd on Sunday June 03, 2018 @04:49PM (#17221865)
Most of these aren't an issue if you're self-hosting in the cloud though. You can cheap VPS for a couple of $ a month.
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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by EchelonFuxMe on Sunday June 03, 2018 @04:51PM (#17221888)
Can't afford it. $1 goes a long way here.
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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by Yetanfou on Sunday June 03, 2018 @05:32PM (#17222310)
Not everyone will need to self-host, it is still possible to host your projects at someone else's instance. If you live in a place where $1 is a lot of money (where is this by the way?) you could either share a server with others who each chip in their $0.10 or just find an open instance somewhere. There are plenty of organisations which host services like these, Github is the best-known but by no means the only alternative.
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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by GrayShade on Sunday June 03, 2018 @05:08PM (#17222073)
Have you tried running GitLab on a $3 VPS?
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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by Yetanfou on Sunday June 03, 2018 @05:29PM (#17222290)
Gitlab, no. Gogs [1] or Gitea [2], no problem. I run Gitea on an Intel SS4200 (2.4 GHz Pentium E2200, 2 GB, 8 TB JBOD), it hardly causes a blip on this rather anaemic system. The process generally takes up around 35 MB (RSS), it talks to a PostgreSQL database server on the same box. You would not want to run a service the size of Github on this but for a personal repository it is more than enough. If your projects get so popular that they outgrow the hardware or VPS just move to a higher tier.

[1] https://gogs.io/

[2] https://gitea.io/

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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by wongmjane on Sunday June 03, 2018 @05:51PM (#17222463)
GitLab does not recommend hosting it in such a low-spec [1]. Would love to see if such setup is still feasible, though.

[1] https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/install/requirements.html#memory

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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by sigjuice on Sunday June 03, 2018 @07:30PM (#17223117)
For personal projects I find it sufficient to simply have a VPS (or even just a shell account) that I can ssh into.
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