Gergely Nagy 🐁

Lately, I've been thinking about offering managed #Forgejo hosting, aimed at individuals and small businesses. The goal would be to provide something cheap, but reasonable, rather than something that'd scale way too big.

At this time, however, I'm not sure if it's worth the trouble. I mean, I'd love to see more Forgejo instances, because I'd like to believe that the future is many small instances, rather than a few big ones. But offering such managed hosting comes with significant work, and non-negligible costs, especially if I need to rely on something like Stripe for payment processing.

The exact details are TBD, but this would let you use your own domain, and would include backups, forgejo actions runner, and probably a few other things (cpu, ram, and disk - no idea yet at the moment). The entire stack would be free software, including any tooling I make for supporting the setup.

To help me gauge the viability of this idea, lets run a little experiment: assuming I'd offer managed hosting starting at €25 / month or thereabouts, with more expensive tiers also being available, would you be interested?

Boost appreciated, and feel free to ask about or comment on the idea too. This is just a very early exploration, really.

Just putting this out here: I've been working on #Forgejo for #Codeberg for the past couple of months, and am loving it. So much so, that I would like to do more of it, more than what Codeberg can pay me for.

So if anyone wishes to sponsor me (or knows any company or organization who might), to implement a particular feature, or fix something, or in general help them with anything Forgejo related, I'm available, please get in touch!

For reference, my work has been described as:

Long-standing issues are now finally resolved, and the progress feels like a rocket booster.

This is based on my the first two months of my work. I started out with only vague knowledge of Go and Forgejo. Imagine what I can do now that I'm much more familiar with both.

Anyhow, more information about my Forgejo-related work, and links to my resume, and other useful bits of information are available here.

Boosts appreciated!

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