If you’ve ever waited 12 seconds for a git clone of a 5GB monorepo behind a corporate firewall, you know the cost of poor Git server performance: $47k annual productivity loss for a 50-person engineering team, per our 2024 internal benchmark. For 15 years, I’ve tuned Git infrastructure for teams from 4-person startups to 10k+ engineer orgs, and the debate between lightweight Gitea and feature-heav
I like servers. Not in a "let me spend Saturday hand-tuning nginx" way. More in a "this $6 VPS is sitting right here and could probably run half my side projects" way. The weird part is that deploying to one still feels more complicated than it should. For a lot of small and medium web apps, the app itself is not the hard part. The annoying part is everything around it: building the app getting it