Lately, I've been thinking about offering managed #Forgejo hosting, aimed at individuals and small businesses. The goal would be to provide something cheap, but reasonable, rather than something that'd scale way too big.

At this time, however, I'm not sure if it's worth the trouble. I mean, I'd love to see more Forgejo instances, because I'd like to believe that the future is many small instances, rather than a few big ones. But offering such managed hosting comes with significant work, and non-negligible costs, especially if I need to rely on something like Stripe for payment processing.

The exact details are TBD, but this would let you use your own domain, and would include backups, forgejo actions runner, and probably a few other things (cpu, ram, and disk - no idea yet at the moment). The entire stack would be free software, including any tooling I make for supporting the setup.

To help me gauge the viability of this idea, lets run a little experiment: assuming I'd offer managed hosting starting at €25 / month or thereabouts, with more expensive tiers also being available, would you be interested?

Boost appreciated, and feel free to ask about or comment on the idea too. This is just a very early exploration, really.