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points by eknkc 4 days ago | 0 comments
Honestly, not really wanna deal with self hosting it. Would rather pay for a decent service at this point.
[–] import 4 days ago
There is already a blacksmith sh if you don't want to selfhost your runners. Or codeberg as a full solution if I am not mistaken.
[–] michaelbuckbee 4 days ago
+1 for Blacksmith. You need to have a Github org to use it as it won't work on personal accounts, but it feels like a magic want that just makes runners 2x as fast.

I have it for all my stuff (dozens of repos and hundreds of PRs/builds per week) and it's only once in the last year that I've exceeded the free resource levels. I don't know if it's just extra capacity or they're burning VC dollars in the hopes of inspiring posts like this, but either way I feel like I'm taking advantage of them at this point.

[–] booi 3 days ago
But doesn't Blacksmith piggy back off of the Github Actions control plane? Outages will just spread to Blacksmith
[–] crote 4 days ago
Codeberg only allows F/LOSS software, for most companies that's a dealbreaker.
[–] tcfhgj 4 days ago
Private projects usually are not owned by companies
[–] crote 3 days ago
Your proprietary personal hobby project doesn't need an entire publicly-accessible Forge, it can just live on your local drive or home server. It is also not critical enough that GitHub occasionally being down is a big deal.

If you're looking for a publicly-accessible Forge SaaS for your private repos and are willing to pay for it, you are almost certainly a company developing proprietary software.