Hi all,
I am trying to find out if there is interest in a hosted Forgejo service with a strong emphasis on EU sovereignty and independence from big tech. Forgejo is an open-source Git hosting platform that I think is great and deserves wider use. For that reason, we will donate 5% of our plan revenue to the Forgejo project.
The plan is to cover what developers and small teams need:
- Forgejo for Git hosting
- Servers at Scaleway (a European cloud provider)
- CI/CD runners
- Dependency vulnerability alerts on every plan
- Daily backups
- Other essentials, as listed on our features page
Vault42 (that’s us) has no US parent company and uses only EU-based subprocessors, so your code stays outside US jurisdiction. ISO 27001 certification is a goal for later on.
The focus will be on private repositories, since Codeberg already serves open-source projects very well. There will also be a free plan for open source with unlimited public repositories, not to compete with Codeberg but to give people another option.
If this interests you, you can join the waitlist at vault42.eu.
Questions and suggestions are welcome in the comments or by DM.
Cheers,
Marijn from Vault42
Disclosure: I am the founder of Vault42.
I was going to say Codeberg is in Berlin, Germany. They also allow private.
Good luck to you, I hope the project goes well!
Hi FiniteBanjo,
Thanks for your reply and kindness :)
You are right that Codeberg does offer private repo’s but it’s under a pretty limiting set of rules, especially for commercial projects, which is more my aim. See https://docs.codeberg.org/getting-started/faq/#how-about-private-repositories?
Codeberg is great for open source though. Vault42 is meant for the private and client work that falls outside their scope.