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Gitlab is fine but hard to tell what will happen long term. They were considering selling already and with new management I will most likely enshittify real quick. Self hosting forgejo is the safest option if you don't have any heavy CI/CD flows. If you need resource heavy CI/CD it gets more complicated.
What's wrong with CI/CD on forgejo? (It works great for me on Codeberg.)
I'm talking about self hosting specifically. If you don't need heavy CI/CD you're basically just hosting a web UI on top of a git repo. It doesn't have big requirements. You can just drop it on a cheap VPS. If you need CI/CD it gets complicated. Github and gitlab have limits on minutes. I imagine codeberg also have some limits. Github offers CI/CD on windows and mac for free but gitlab doesn't for example. So you can pay for gitlab/github minutes, put something in cloud or even just run a dedicated runner on your home computer but everything has its price and limitations.
I still don't quite understand. I self-host my runners, it's really easy (even behind a dynamic & shared 5G IP), free and limitless.
This all obviously depend on your CI/CD needs. As I said, problem is with resource heavy stuff.
I tried building my project on a base tier VPS from Hetzner using gitlab runner and it run out of memory. So I would have to pay for a more expensive VPS that would be sitting there idle most of the time. Doesn't make sense for me but if someone is running CI/CD all the time it may be a good option.
I ended up installing the runner on a spare PC I have because I just needed it for couple of weeks. Having this PC sitting idle all the time also doesn't make much sense but if you're building a lot it may be a good option. But you do need a quite strong server at home and this costs money.
And that's because I only need Linux machine. If I wanted to also build my app on Windows and Mac things get more complicated.
Different people have different CI/CD needs. In some cases self-hosting runners is easy, in other cases replacing github, which gives you linux, windows and mac compute time for free, will be complicated.
Running those in VMs on the same machine could work.