Locally I run forgejo. Anything I want available to me away from home, Codeberg now. Before I would use Gitlab because I've used that a lot more than Github since like 2014

CodeBerg

Just upload ye olde tarballs onto your static raw-HTML-coded site like the classic programmers (like the legendary Monsieur Bellard) do.

Codeberg or GitLab.

I use Codeberg for public stuff. I also run a self hosted forgejo on coolify on a Hetzner cloud instance but realistically that’s overkill.

Personally, I use a combination of Codeberg (cloud backups) and a self-hosted Forgejo instance (local backups). Redundancy is always good, if one goes down I still have my projects saved in the other!

I self-host forgejo on a spare machine in my home. I also set up automatic encrypted backup using Restic on Backblaze (but any S3 compatible host will work). It might not be a perfect backup strategy, but it's good enough for me, and perfectly manageable with my limited skills. Using wireguard, I can easily access it from outside my home. I also get much better uptime than Github lol

Importantly, I do NOT share this with anyone. It's purely for my own private development and personal projects (I have a ton of these). Even when contributing to something on github, I work in a mirror on my private forgejo, and only push to github to create the PR when it's ready.

Any open source projects I've released (I only have a few) go on Codeberg, but I still have a lot of projects I contribute to and rely on that are on Github. That's really the hard part: getting other people to migrate to something else.

Already do; Codeberg is great.

Note - you can completely disable all the AI features in Gitlab. In fact, they're disabled by default unless you explicitly enable them by configuring model integrations. I think its one of the better self hosted options because it had a clear maintenance and path to profitability.

I run my own GitLab on a NUC with no issues.

Disclaimer: I have contributed open source code to GitLab before.

I have been using self hosted Gitea for a while now (few years) with 0 regrets.

Selfhosting for personal projects is cheap. I'd choose Forgejo because it not so resource hungry as GitLab.

For my personal projects (all FOSS) I use Codeberg and mirror them to hosted GtiLab and GitHub.

I prefer sr.ht, but I admit it's a bit too spartan for some people with its original git pull request style via emails.

On a positive side, it'll keep you from getting as many dumb PRs and issues.

Self-hosted gitea. Free, runs on a potato, built-in actions support, optional wiki and package hosting, etc.

Seems weird nobody even mentioned Bitbucket

Codeberg.

sourcehut, codeberg or self-hosting (cgit, forgejo, gitea, which ever suits your needs)

I've exclusively been using gitlab.com and self hosted gitlab ce for years. So that would be my choice.

I just selfhost in my own computer. 100% uptime when I need it (I don't need it when my computer is turned off). And as a bonus, it's not on the public internet so I'm not training slop scrappers.

I'm not a programmer, but I have my dotfiles and bash scripts I like to keep in private repos. I just moved my dotfiles over to Codeberg, gonna do my scripts here soon...

But been relatively painless. I can see how bigger and public projects will take some coordination and planning but...it's probably worth it?

Codeberg has been fun and simple to use, but again, I'm just a hobbyist.

svn

I still use it, it works great and I don't have fucking AI bullshit polluting my stuff.

Sourcehut

I moved all my private projects to Codeberg from GitHub. IDK why but I feel safer that way

Radicle, codeberg, gitlab, sourcehut, tale your pick. Github isn't the only option. Far from it.

Some alternative self-hosting options (besides full-fledged "forges"):

If you don't need issues and stuff, you could just use git and back it up (by copying or cloning/updating to some other machine).

You could deploy soft-serve, which is a self-contained git/ssh server with cool cli (beware: it's not super performant on large repos, so don't host a clone of the linux kernel on it). Since you'll use it via ssh, you don't have to bother with https, certificates, reverse proxies and stuff.

If you are willing to put some effort into it, the (imho) coolest option would be to use radicle, which is a p2p forge (beware: documentation is not great, and - even if the "core" is solid - the cli tools are very much beta still).

Codeberg, and because I already have a VPS (server), I'd check for Forgejo packages (I would only use them if security updates automatically update/install).

GitLab. You can't be emotional about ai., it's a tool

When github puts ads in commits, you say "fuck no" but gitlab giving you ai devops tools is fine. If you don't want to use it, don't.