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Foregjo (pronounced like “for-jay-oh”) is a lightweight, self-hosted github alternative. It’s free and open source! Cards on the table 😅, I reached for this project because I could not justify spending actual money on something like Laravel Cloud or Fly.io for hosting a hobby project that generates no revenue.

Forgejo ships with docker registry support so I was able to containerize my Laravel app and deploy it as a Docker container managed by Dockge. Pair this up with something like cloudflare tunnels (which we all know I’m using) and you’ve got free hosting friends!

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