Recently I've been finding myself with several private codebases (University ACWs and such) that I've wanted to work on in several places at different times, and that I've also wanted to backup in case of emergency. Git, along with the cloud, were naturally my first choice. At the time, GitHub only offered 5 free private repositories to students, so I started looking around at few different self hosted solutions.

I found software like GitLab and GitList, but the one I found that best suited my needs was Go Git Service. GitLab in particular looked really cool, but it has rather steep minimum requirements that I can't meet.

Go Git Service has low minimum requirements, supports multiple users, and allows unlimited private repositories. It even has a forking system that's based on GitHub. If that wasn't enough, the icing on the cake is that it's so ridiculously easy to set up. In fact it's so simple I managed to set a fully working git server up (with all the extras) in just half an hour.

If anyone would like a full tutorial on how to set up Go Git Service, I'll gladly write one up and post it here. Let me know in the comments!