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Forgejo is a self-hosted software forge — Git repositories, pull requests, issues, a package registry, and a wiki in one lightweight application. It is the GitHub-style platform you run yourself, governed by a German non-profit and licensed GPLv3+, so the code behind your code stays yours.

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Forgejo

Forgejo

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€9/month
Automated Backups
Monitoring
Automated Updates
Auto SSL

USAGE

Unlimited
Human Support
Custom Domains
Terminal Access
File Manager Access
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ABOUT THE SOFTWARE

What is Forgejo

Forgejo is an open-source software forge for hosting Git repositories with code review, issue tracking, releases, and a built-in package registry. It runs as a single Go binary and started as a community fork of Gitea in December 2022.

Forgejo is licensed under the GNU GPLv3-or-later, a change made with version 9.0 in August 2024 to keep the project free software. It is developed under Codeberg e.V., a German non-profit registered in 2018, which holds the project's domains and trademarks and runs an elected governance model. The code lives at codeberg.org, the application is written in Go with a Vue.js front end, and it runs on Linux and ARM. A small instance idles below 200 MB of memory. The current long-term-support release, v15.0, shipped on 16 April 2026 as the 100th Forgejo release and is supported through 15 July 2027.

Forgejo is widely deployed. Codeberg, the largest public Forgejo instance, hosts more than 300,000 repositories and over 200,000 accounts as of November 2025. The Fedora project is migrating thousands of repositories to Forgejo across 2025 and 2026, with Fedora Release Engineering moving in November 2025. In April 2026 the Dutch government launched its own Forgejo platform, code.overheid.nl, run by the Ministry of the Interior's open-source office. These are organisations that chose a forge they could run and govern themselves.

FEATURES

What Forgejo does

Forgejo covers the full path from a push to a release. Repositories, review, issues, packages, and mirroring live in one application, so a small team does not stitch together five separate tools to ship software.

Git repository hosting

Public, private, and limited-visibility repositories with branch protection, signed commits, code search, and activity graphs, served from a single binary that idles below 200 MB of memory.

Pull requests and code review

Inline comments, required approvals, and code-owner-style routing, plus AGit-Flow for review by git push alone, with no fork or feature branch needed.

Issues and project boards

An issue tracker with labels, milestones, assignees, kanban-style boards, and templates. Version 13 added content reporting; version 15 added repository-scoped access tokens.

CI/CD engine

A built-in continuous-integration engine whose workflow files use GitHub-Actions-compatible syntax, so most existing .github/workflows files move across with minimal edits.

Package and container registry

One registry serving 23 ecosystems, including Docker and OCI images, npm, Maven, PyPI, Cargo, NuGet, Go modules, Debian, and Helm, with blob-level deduplication.

Wiki and releases

A per-repository wiki, tagged releases with downloadable artifacts, GPG-signed tags, and an attachment store that backs up cleanly with the built-in forgejo dump command.

Mirroring and migration

Built-in importers from GitHub, GitLab, Gitea, and other Forgejo instances, plus push-mirroring back to public forges and pull-mirroring from any Git URL on a schedule.

Single sign-on and access tokens

OAuth2, OpenID Connect, LDAP, and PAM login sources, instance-wide two-factor enforcement, and repository-scoped tokens that confine how far an API key reaches.

Software Source
Documentation
Video Tutorials

WHAT'S ALWAYS INCLUDED

Every app. Fully managed.
Nothing extra to pay for.

Every app on DANIAN ships with the same operational baseline. You do not choose a backup add-on or a monitoring tier. Hosting, patching, backups, SSL, and support are part of the €9, and they apply to Forgejo the same way they apply to everything else in the catalog.

Automatic updates and patches

Apps run the latest stable version. Security patches applied silently, with rollback if needed.

Daily off-site backups

Multiple daily backups in redundant off-site locations. One-click restore if anything goes wrong.

24/7 uptime monitoring

Continuous monitoring with instant alerting. We respond before you notice.

SSL, firewall, DDoS protection

Auto-renewing SSL, hardened firewall rules, DDoS mitigation on every deployment.

Performance and scaling

We monitor resource usage continuously. When your app needs more headroom, we flag it and upgrade with your explicit approval.

Dedicated engineering support

Real engineers by email and ticket. DNS, SMTP & migration help. All included in €9.

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WHY MANAGED

Why teams pick managed Forgejo

In December 2025, GitHub announced a per-minute fee for running CI on your own hardware, then paused it after pushback — but the direction was clear. The same year, GitHub's status page logged repeated multi-hour outages. More teams now want a forge they control.

Running Forgejo yourself is more than one docker run. Someone has to apply each security release, renew TLS before it expires, verify that last night's backup can actually restore, and pick a database that survives concurrent load. The Forgejo binary is small; the operational responsibility around it is not. That work does not show up until the week it goes wrong.

REVIEWS

Hear from customers ​like you​​​​​​​

Successful businesses and professionals around the world rely on DANIAN every day
5 stars review

No more maintenance headaches!

Finally, I can relax and not bother with maintenance. Each of the softwares that we run on DANIAN is automated and running stable for couple months already. They even assist us with modifying the DNS records. Once we needed to modify the config of Nextcloud so that we are able to upload higher than 5GB files and they assisted us fast. I also love their documentation!

Review from Kevin Blackwell

Kevin Blackwell

Review Origin United States
5 stars review

Best managed service

I previously ran Peertube, Mastodon, Mattermost and Mirotalk on other providers before switching to DANIAN. I was tired of handling the updates and backups myself. Not only that the performance is "out of this world" fast, but their tech support is amazing. Since then I added 5-10 more Apps on my account. I also love how they add more softwares on their list constantly!

Review from William Northfield

William Northfield

Review Origin United Kingdom
5 stars review

Love the personalized service!

I own an ecommerce startup. I knew that I need some softwares so that I add automations in my biz. I contacted their support team and I explained my needs. Albert recommended me couple softwares, each for a specific use-case. I signed up for the free trial and tested all. Ended up activating 6 apps. Everything is running smooth 2 months so far. I love the personalized service that I get with them!

Review from George Adams

George Adams

Review Origin United States
5 stars review

n8n runs excellent

We needed to add the ffmpeg functionality to our n8n instance. I contacted their support team. They made the required changes in couple minutes and notified me. Usually for this type of service I would need to hire a developer on a hourly basis. Love them!

Review from David Hartmann

David Hartmann

Review Origin Germany
5 stars review

Smooth experience

I needed a way to manage the projects and files for my company. This was the first time I learn about opensource. I asked their support team and they assisted me immediately. I started with Openproject. Later I added Nextcloud. My team were able to get used to the apps fast.

Review from Levi Nilsso

Levi Nilsson

Review Origin Norway
5 stars review

Bye GA

I wanted to replace GA with something but I didn't know the options. I talked with Jack from support. Couple minutes after that, I have a running Matomo Analytics. They even configured the tracking and connected it with my website. I have only words of appreciation and respect!

Review from Wyatt Mitchell

Wyatt Mitchell

Review Origin Canada
5 stars review

Love the freedom

I wanted to use a crm for my startup. I signed up for the free trial. Tried out espocrm and dolibar and picked one. Their dashboard is very easy for a beginner. I recommend them and feel confident in choosing them.

Review from Elias Koch

Elias Koch

Review Origin Germany
5 stars review

Wow just wow

After discovering DANIAN, I wished I'd found them sooner — their solution is excellent and deserves wider recognition. Very good solution!

Review from Tyler Hollander

Tyler Hollander

Review Origin Canada
5 stars review

Professional tech support!

I thought that I knew what I was doing and I made changes in the Mattermost backend config file. Then it broke. I reached out to their tech and received an incredibly specific and fast response. They found the error fast and provided a clear solution.

Review from Bastian Engel

Bastian Engel

Review Origin Germany
5 stars review

Their support team is the best!

I had a problem with my card and the subscription could not be renewed in time. I notified their support and surprisingly, they showed much understanding. They basically left my apps run until I solved the card issue. Other providers would have deleted my data in a heartbeat. This is the way to build client-vendor trust!

Review from George Adams

George Adams

Review Origin United States
5 stars review

Fair price and fast

4 months ago I activated n8n, Uptime kuma, Vaultwarden and Paperlessngx. So far everything is perfect. The performance of all apps is excellent. I contacted their support team couple times for using custom subdomains for the apps and they were fast and kind. I'm constantly recommending them to my network!

Review from Atanas

Atanas

Review Origin Macedonia
5 stars review

Vaultwarden 10/10

I wanted to selfhost a passwords manager for my company but I didn't trust the mainstream providers. I tried out Vaultwarden for the free trial. I loved how their support team communicated with me professionally but still kind. I know that I can contact them whenever with whatever question I have. Recommended!

Review from James Smith

James Smith

Review Origin United States
5 stars review

Multiple locations options

I run an agency. The majority of our clients are in different countries. I love that DANIAN has 20+ countries and I can spin up any app in any location. This gives us the freedom to focus on our clients. Sure, I can employee a dev in my team, but honestly, I prefer to not have those headaches. With DANIAN everything is running 24/7.

Review from Edward Nelson

Edward Nelson

Review Origin United States
5 stars review

Everything just works!

My focus is on my business, not running servers. I love that I can lauch any app without having to think about the tech behind it. Everything just works!

Review from Tony Roy

Tony Roy

Review Origin United States
5 stars review

Awesome support team!

I signed up for the free trial in order to test Chatwoot. I needed to put a livechat widget on my website but I don't have much tech experience. I contacted their support to see if they can assist. They went above and beyond by generating the livechat widget code for me and inserting it in my website. They answered all my additional questions. 

Review from Filip

Filip

Review Origin Austria
5 stars review

Very proactive!

Today couple of the videos on my Peertube got viral. Before I even noticed, their support have notified me via email that they proactively upgraded my app with more cpu & ram so that it continues to work without any downtime. They left the upgraded app with the added resources for couple days until the traffic stabilizes. After that I had the possiblity to stay on the same plan or keep the upgraded plan. Out of gratitude I stayed on the upgraded one.

Review from Luke Hall

Luke Hall

Review Origin Australia
5 stars review

Win-win!

I run a web design biz. After I perform the work for my clients, they constantly ask me for more software solutions. So I partnered with DANIAN. Not only I provide the requested softwares for my clients and get the increased revenue boost by delegating all to DANIAN, but also for those clients that wish to order directly from DANIAN, I send them an affiliate link. Win-win on all sides!

Review from Luke Walker

Luke Walker

Review Origin United Kingdom
5 stars review

Flexible

For the past couple months I was running many apps with DANIAN for my clients. But one of my clients wanted a software that isn't on the current list. I talked with their tech support. They accomodated me and added the software the same day. The next day, I signed for their Partners program. We will go long way together!

Review from Jeffrey Johnson

Jeffrey Johnson

Review Origin United States
5 stars review

Awesome customer service

I needed to add analytics on my website but I didn't know anything about DNS. Their team guided me at all phases and they performed the changes for me. Additionally they were transparent and notified me of every change applied and steps performed.

Review from Gabriele Marino

Gabriele Marino

Review Origin Italy
5 stars review

Good admin dashboard

Not only that I got Chatwoot, I also have access to the management dashboard. I love that I can view my hourly/daily usage and perform manual backups and restorations if needed. I don't need the level of control but it feels good to know that I have it if I need it.

Review from Matthew Turner

Matthew Turner

Review Origin Canada
5 stars review

Financially wise decision

Why install Chatwoot on a VPS that will cost me $20-25/month. Then worry about security, updates, backups, etc. Instead, I can activate it on DANIAN the same day for half the price. Plus, less headaches for maintenance. So happy I found out about this company!

Review from Andreas Schmitt

Andreas Schmitt

Review Origin Germany
5 stars review

Great service!

I configure custom Matomo tracking for my clients as a monthly service. Many of my clients were asking if they can selfhost Matomo instead of using the Cloud service. My employee recommended DANIAN. Basically, I can activate as much Matomo's in any of 20+ countries the same day. Additionally the affiliate revenue is a nice bonus.

Review from Jacob Turner

Jacob Turner

Review Origin United States
5 stars review

Smooth experience

I was listing through youtube tuts on how to install Bookstack myself. Then randomly, I found their video playlist exactly for Bookstack. Got curious and went at their website. For the same price (or higher) that I would pay for just the VPS, with them I'm getting a fully managed Bookstack. It's a no-brainer decision!

Review from Elias Gustafsson

Elias Gustafsson

Review Origin Sweden
5 stars review

I love opensource software

2 days ago I haven't heard about opensource softwares. Today I'm running 4 apps and enjoying the trip. Hey, 1 month later I may become a developer, haha just kidding. Love you guys!

Review from Mason Hayes

Mason Hayes

Review Origin United Kingdom
5 stars review

Its a great service

Its a great service. I love the performance of my Mastodon community. It keeps on growing and I don't have any worries about backups, secuirity, updates, etc.

Review from Vinícius Rocha

Vinícius Rocha

Review Origin Brazil
5 stars review

Very intuitive solution!

I wanted to use a nocode software for my company. A friend recommended them so I tried both Baserow and NocoDB, couple days later picked one.

Review from Haruto Hashimoto

Haruto Hashimoto

Review Origin Japan
5 stars review

Top-notch security

Honestly, I don't care much about performance and functionalities. I just wish to not bother with hacking attacks so that I can focus on my firm. I recommend them!

Review from Henrik Otto

Henrik Otto

Review Origin Germany
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USE CASES

Three teams who run Forgejo on DANIAN

These three setups show who moves to managed Forgejo and why. Each is representative of a common migration pattern — the region, the configuration choices, and the integration points are the ones these teams ask us for most often.

8-PERSON SOFTWARE STUDIO

Leaving GitHub Team for flat cost and code custody

Around 60 private repositories with Git LFS for binary assets, hosted in a single region close to the team. They migrated off GitHub Team with the built-in importer — repositories, issues, pull requests, labels, and releases — then wired OpenID Connect single sign-on to their identity provider. We run PostgreSQL and nightly off-site backups.

DIGITAL AGENCY, 5 STAFF + CLIENT REVIEWERS

Hosting per-client code without paying per reviewer

One Forgejo organisation per client, repositories isolated with team-level permissions. Client reviewers cost nothing extra under flat pricing. A per-client container registry replaces a separate artifact store, and off-boarding hands the whole organisation to the client cleanly when an engagement ends.

OPEN-SOURCE PROJECT, CORE + CONTRIBUTORS

Moving off GitHub for governance and control

Public repositories with open registration gated against spam, plus a push-mirror that keeps a read-only GitHub copy so old links still resolve. Federated stars are enabled. The project follows the same path Fedora and the Dutch government took across 2025 and 2026 — a forge they govern, not one they rent.

COMPARISON

Four ways to run Forgejo

There are four common ways to get a Forgejo-style forge, or to avoid running one by paying for a proprietary alternative. Here is what each costs at one, five, and ten seats, and how much of your month each one takes.

Approach1 seat5 seats10 seatsYour ops time / month
Proprietary SaaSGitHub Team / GitLab Premium$4 / $29$20 / $145$40 / $290~0 (hosted)
Self-host on a VPS$24/mo production-class server~$44/mo~$44/mo~$44/mo1–2 h (€60–240)
Home servere.g. HP ProLiant ML30 Gen10 tower€210–667/mo*€210–667/mo*€210–667/mo*2–4 h
DANIAN managed Forgejoone instance, all your users€9/mo€9/mo€9/mo0

Only the proprietary row scales per seat — one Forgejo instance serves your whole team at a flat price. SaaS figures are list price per seat and exclude CI-minute overages, package and storage charges, and security add-ons; GitLab Premium is billed annually only. The VPS figure is a $24/mo production-class server plus off-site backup and monitoring — your time is on top. The home-server figure marked * amortises hardware over 36 months and includes power, business-grade internet, off-site backup, and operator time. Beyond cost, the deciding factors are who runs the box, whether the bill grows with every hire, and where the code sits — on DANIAN you choose the region and we do the operating.

BY INDUSTRY

Forgejo for specific industries

Some sectors put specific demands on a code forge: who may read source, how change is recorded, and where the data sits. These four sectors meet those demands differently, and the configuration we choose for each reflects that.

Government teams plan around the NIS2 Directive's supply-chain-integrity obligations, where custody of source and a record of every change matter as much as the code itself. We deploy in the region the body specifies, enforce instance-wide two-factor login through Forgejo's global two-factor requirement added in version 13, and connect single sign-on to the agency's existing identity provider. A typical workflow is publishing inspectable government source: public read access, signed releases, and recorded change history that a reviewer can follow. This is not theoretical — in April 2026 the Dutch government launched its own Forgejo platform, code.overheid.nl, and onboarded the national electoral council's vote-counting software within weeks of the soft launch.

Software companies now plan around the Cyber Resilience Act's duties to publish a software bill of materials and run coordinated vulnerability disclosure for the products they ship. We provision a PostgreSQL backend, require single sign-on, set protected branches with required approvals, and run encrypted off-site backups for the disaster-recovery question every reviewer asks. A common workflow keeps security advisories and the SBOM beside the source in the same forge, with every release tagged and signed, and the built-in registry standing in for a separate artifact server. The cost difference is concrete: a ten-developer team on a proprietary forge with its security add-on can pay over $1,200 per month, while the same team runs Forgejo here for a flat €9.

Agencies work under per-client confidentiality and least-privilege access to source, where one client must never see another's repositories. We set one Forgejo organisation per client, issue per-organisation access tokens, and enable OAuth2-provider mode so each client's own login can be connected. Onboarding a client means creating an organisation, inviting reviewers, and pushing the initial repositories; off-boarding transfers ownership of that organisation to the client and the agency steps away. The flat price changes the economics: inviting a client reviewer costs nothing, where a per-seat proprietary plan bills a full seat for every reviewer who has any project access — the reason many agencies simply stopped inviting clients to review at all.

Automotive teams follow the Automotive SPICE (ASPICE) software-construction process, which expects recorded review and a traceable change history for every line that ships in a vehicle. We enable AGit-Flow so engineers submit changes with git push origin HEAD:refs/for/main, opening a pull request with no fork and no feature branch. A typical workflow sees many small commits a day reach the main branch through AGit push, each gated by review before merge, with release branches cut as needed. Trunk-based development is a core practice of continuous integration, and automotive teams at FOSDEM 2025 named Forgejo's AGit support as the reason they chose it over the alternatives.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Three groups of questions: the technical detail of how we run Forgejo, how migration and onboarding work, and how billing, support, and the platform itself work.

Three groups: technical setup, migration, and how DANIAN works as a service.

01

Technical and configuration

Forgejo was forked from Gitea in December 2022 after Gitea's trademarks and domains moved to a for-profit company without community approval. It lives under Codeberg e.V., a German non-profit, with elected governance. Forgejo became a hard fork in February 2024 and relicensed from MIT to GPLv3-or-later in August 2024 with v9.0. Migration from older Gitea is still straightforward.
Forgejo's setup wizard defaults to SQLite, which the project recommends only for low-to-moderate activity. We provision on PostgreSQL from day one. Switching databases on a live instance is not a trivial task, so starting on PostgreSQL means you never face a forklift migration when repository and review activity grows.
Forgejo's built-in registry serves 23 ecosystems, including Docker and OCI container images, npm, Maven, PyPI, Cargo, NuGet, Go modules, Debian, Helm, and RubyGems, with blob-level deduplication. One forge can replace a separate artifact server for most teams. Container packages can auto-link back to the repository that built them.
Partly. Federated repository stars are implemented, built on the ForgeFed extension of ActivityPub. Federated pull requests, issues, and user identities are on the roadmap but not yet shipped, and the Forgejo project treats federation as experimental and subject to breaking change. We enable what is stable and track the rest.
Yes. With AGit-Flow you push a change with git push origin HEAD:refs/for/main and Forgejo opens a pull request automatically — no fork or feature branch needed. You can pass a title and topic as push options. This suits trunk-based teams who want Gerrit-style review without branch sprawl.

02

Migration and onboarding

21 datacenter locations across six continents. You choose the region at provisioning. Application data sits in the region you choose; pick whichever is closest to your users or matches your data-residency preference.
Yes. Request a region migration from the dashboard and we run the move in the background. The system emails you when the migration completes; total transfer time depends on data volume but typical instances finish in a few hours. There is no extra charge for a region change.
Yes. Full data export is available at any time, in a portable format you can bring to any infrastructure.
Yes. Push-mirroring keeps a read-only copy on GitHub or GitLab so old links still resolve, and pull-mirroring syncs a remote repository on a schedule. Forgejo v15.0 fixed an authentication bug that previously made mirror credentials unreliable, so scheduled mirrors run cleanly on current instances.

03

Billing, support, and platform

€9 covers everything we do for that app: hardware in the region you choose, daily off-site backups with one-click restore, automatic security patches and version upgrades, 24/7 monitoring, SSL and firewall, and engineering support on email and the ticket section in the client portal. There are no setup fees or hidden line items. For more info see our Pricing page.
If you decide to continue, we charge €9/app/month from day 8. If you don't, the trial ends and you can export your data. No card is required for the trial, and we never auto-charge you without explicit consent.
No. The €9/month is flat regardless of how many users log into your app. Add 5 users or 50; the price doesn't change.
24/7 email and ticket support, both staffed by engineers who run the systems. We handle DNS configuration, SMTP setup, app integrations, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and migration help. Response time is typically under an hour. There is no tier system — every customer gets the same support.
Yes. Cancel from the dashboard. We don't charge a cancellation fee, we don't lock data, and we will export your data to you on request before deletion. data to you on request before deletion.
Every customer instance is backed up daily to a separate region from the primary. We test restores. You can request a restore at any backup point within the retention window — usually 7 days for daily backups.
Your application data sits in the region you choose at provisioning — 21 datacenter locations across six continents. Account-level data (billing, account email, support ticket history) is processed centrally. Application data region is picked by you, per app.
99.9% uptime SLA on every app, every tenant. Service credits are documented at danian.co/service-level-agreement. The status page is located at status.danian.co.
When your tenant approaches the resource ceiling — the base tier holds 1 vCPU/RAM, 30 GB storage — we notify you. Resource upgrades happen with your explicit consent; we will not upgrade your tenant or charge you without it.
We wait. We don't suspend the app or delete your data on the first failed charge. We email you, you fix the card on file, and we continue.
Invoices can be downloaded from the billing dashboard in PDF the day each charge succeeds. EU VAT is added where applicable and the VAT-reverse-charge regime applies for VAT-registered businesses with a valid number.
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Yes. Every instance comes with a web-based terminal and a file manager in your DANIAN management dashboard. Useful for managing your data and customizations.
Resources scale with your usage. If your app needs more vCPU, RAM, or storage, we add it — and we ask first before any change to your plan. €9 is the floor; resource-heavy workloads may price higher, but you'll always know in advance.
Yes. We have both a Partner program and an Affiliate program available. Anybody can sign up.
No contract. No minimum commitment. Cancel anytime from the dashboard with one click. The 7-day free trial requires no credit card. After the trial converts to paid, you can still cancel at any month without notice or penalty.

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