Gogs — Self-Hosted, Open-Source

Painless self-hosted Git Service written in Go.

Gogs is commonly used as a self-hosted alternative to GitHub, GitLab. Replacing a SaaS tool with a self-hosted equivalent lets you avoid recurring subscription fees, keep full control of your data, and continue working even when the original vendor changes pricing, ships limits, or shuts down.

License: MIT. Built with: Go, Go Template, Less, JavaScript, Shell, Batchfile, Dockerfile, Procfile. Website: https://gogs.io/. Source: https://github.com/gogs/gogs.

Features

User dashboard, user profile and activity timeline.
Access repositories via SSH, HTTP and HTTPS protocols.
User, organization and repository management.
Repository and organization webhooks, including Slack, Discord and Dingtalk.
Repository Git hooks, deploy keys and Git LFS.
Repository issues, pull requests, wiki, protected branches and collaboration.
Migrate and mirror repositories with wiki from other code hosts.
Web editor for quick editing repository files and wiki.
Jupyter Notebook and PDF rendering.
Authentication via SMTP, LDAP, reverse proxy, GitHub.com and GitHub Enterprise with 2FA.

Installation

See official install docs: https://gogs.io/getting-started/installation

Why self-host Gogs

Self-hosting gives you three things SaaS can’t: data ownership (the files live on disks you control), cost predictability (a one-time setup vs. recurring per-seat fees that grow with your household or team), and longevity (open-source means the app keeps working even if the maintainers move on, since you can pin a working version). The trade-off is that you take on the operational work of running a server, applying updates, and handling backups.

Hardware notes

A Raspberry Pi or $5 Digital Ocean Droplet is more than enough to get you started. Some even use 64MB RAM Docker CaaS. 2 CPU cores and 512MB RAM would be the baseline for teamwork.

Gogs replaces

GitHub
GitLab

Where to go from here

Last verified: 2026-04-28