A people have replied to you mentioning Codeberg, but that service is intended for Open Source projects, not private commercial work.
Also very happy with SourceHut, though it is quite different (Forgejo looks like a clone of GitHub, really). The SourceHut CI is really cool, too.
Distributed source control is distributable.
Dunno about actions[1], but I've been using a $5/m DO droplet for the last 5 years for my private repo. If it ever runs out of disk space, an additional 100GB of mounted storage is an extra $10/m
I've put something on it (Gitea, I think) that has the web interface for submitting PRs, reviewing them, merging them, etc.
I don't think there is any extra value in paying more to a git hosting SaaS for a single user, than I pay for a DO droplet for (at peak) 20 users.
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[1] Tried using Jenkins, but alas, a $5/m DO droplet is insufficient to run Jenkins. I mashed up shell scripts + Makefiles in a loop, with a `sleep 60` between iterations.
It's pretty nice if you don't mind it being some of the heaviest software you've ever seen.
I also tried gitea, but uninstalled it when I encountered nonsense restrictions with the rationale "that's how GitHub does it". It was okay, pretty lightweight, but locking out features purely because "that's what GitHub does" was just utterly unacceptable to me.
ad hominem isn't a very convincing argument, and as someone who also enjoys forgejo it doesn't make me feel good to see as the justification for another recommender.
I personally use Gitea, so I'd appreciate some additional information.
Forgejo became a hard fork in 2024, with both projects diverging. If you're using it for local hosting I don't personally see much of a difference between them, although that may change as the two projects evolve.
I'd had a gitea instance before and it was appealing insofar as having the ability to mirror from or to a public repo, it had docker container registry capability, it ties into oauth, etc; I'm sure gitlab has much/all of that too, but forgejo's tiny, tiny footprint was very appealing for my resource-constrained selfhosted environment.