Self-hosted Git service — issues, pull requests, code review, CI integration, container registry, and a lightweight footprint. The GitHub alternative that respects your data and doesn't cost $4/user/month. Built for Developers, small dev teams, privacy-focused orgs, education.
Every git hosting (gitea / forgejo) plan includes free DDoS protection, full root access, IPv6 networking, daily snapshots, and 24/7 human support.
Order, wait 30 seconds for deploy, log in — your stack is running.
Modern code review UX — inline comments, threading, suggestion edits, branch protection rules.
Kanban boards, milestones, labels, assignees, dependencies. GitHub-style workflow.
Built-in Docker registry. Push images, pull from CI, no external service needed.
Native Gitea Actions (GitHub Actions compatible) or pair with our CI/CD VPS for Woodpecker.
OAuth via Google, GitHub, GitLab. SAML for enterprise. Local user accounts as fallback.
Both run from the same recipe. Forgejo is the community fork with stronger governance; Gitea is the original.
Self-hosted Git service — issues, pull requests, code review, CI integration, container registry, and a lightweight footprint. The GitHub alternative that respects your data and doesn't cost $4/user/month.
You could install Gitea or Forgejo on a generic $5 VPS. Most people who try spend an evening on the install, another on hardening, another on backups, and then it falls over the first time the kernel updates. We've done that work — every git hosting (gitea / forgejo) plan is tuned, monitored, and updateable in one click.
No black boxes — here's the exact software shipped on every Git Hosting VPS (Gitea / Forgejo) plan.
The Git Hosting VPS (Gitea / Forgejo) image ships with: Gitea or Forgejo + Postgres. We don't fork or patch — we use the official upstream releases, with sensible defaults for our hardware. Update on your schedule, not ours.
Everything runs in containers via Docker, so updates are atomic. If a release breaks something, roll back to the previous image in 30 seconds. No 'I broke prod by running apt upgrade' moments.
The same KVM hypervisor and enterprise NVMe drives we use across every OliveVPS region.
Pick from 20+ datacenter regions worldwide. Git Hosting VPS (Gitea / Forgejo) VPS pricing stays the same in every region — the hardware specs, the bandwidth allowance, the SSD speed. The only thing that changes is your latency to end users.
Forgejo is the community-led fork that emerged after Gitea's commercial pivot in 2022. Same features, same UI, but with stronger governance (Codeberg.org runs Forgejo for ~100k users). We default to Gitea but happily install Forgejo on request — same Docker recipe.
Yes — Gitea's import tool pulls repos, issues, PRs, releases from GitHub via API. Up to 200 repos at a time. Wikis and LFS are also supported.
Each plan handles unlimited repos. User capacity: Starter ~25 active devs, Pro ~150, Premium ~500. Active = pushing/cloning daily.
Yes — Git LFS is built in. Large binary assets (game art, video, ML models) live in the LFS store on the VPS. Storage counts against your plan.
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