# Interest in using Gitea as hosted service?

**URL:** <https://forum.gitea.com/t/interest-in-using-gitea-as-hosted-service/1163>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [May 15, 2019, 3:02pm UTC](https://forum.gitea.com/t/interest-in-using-gitea-as-hosted-service/1163 "2019-05-15T15:02:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![victor](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.gitea.com/victor/32/4829_2.png) [@victor](https://forum.gitea.com/u/victor)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2019, 3:02pm UTC](https://forum.gitea.com/t/interest-in-using-gitea-as-hosted-service/1163/1 "2019-05-15T15:02:05Z")

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Hello there!

I’m starting a new concept called “Open Services” for running Open Source Infrastructure similar to how Public Utilities are run today. There is more information about what Open Services is here: [GitHub - open-services/open-services: Description of Open Services and a framework for operating them](https://github.com/open-services/open-services)

So, with that in mind, I was wondering if there is any interest in having a public, 100% open platform for Git hosting, with a deployed instance of Gitea for public use?

The service would be funded by the users on a voluntary basis. The infrastructure would be maintained by the Open Services community while the software would be the standard distribution of Gitea, without any extra services built on top.

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**Author:** ![techknowlogick](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.gitea.com/techknowlogick/32/4706_2.png) [@techknowlogick](https://forum.gitea.com/u/techknowlogick)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2019, 2:43am UTC](https://forum.gitea.com/t/interest-in-using-gitea-as-hosted-service/1163/2 "2019-05-16T02:43:34Z")

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Seems like there is interest, as there are many of these types of instances. The following are funded by the community that uses them:

> **[Teknik Git](https://git.teknik.io/)**
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> Gitea (Git with a cup of tea) is a painless self-hosted Git service written in Go

  

> **[Codeberg.org](https://codeberg.org/)**
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> Codeberg is founded as a Non-Profit Organization, with the objective to give the Open-Source code that is running our world a safe and friendly home, and to ensure that free code remains free and secure forever.

Edit: Please don’t take this as me discouraging you, by me pointing out others are doing it is showing that it can be done. I encourage you to do this.

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**Author:** ![victor](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.gitea.com/victor/32/4829_2.png) [@victor](https://forum.gitea.com/u/victor)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2019, 8:47am UTC](https://forum.gitea.com/t/interest-in-using-gitea-as-hosted-service/1163/3 "2019-05-16T08:47:36Z")

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Awesome, searched a bit before but didn’t find anything. Great!

It does not discourage me at all, just shows that people wanted it enough for someone to already create it 🙂