Comment by mittermayr

Additional note on Codeberg, which I think is great as a project, but I got curious on what infrastructure they are running on and how reliable this would be for larger corporate repos.

Nov 22, 2025 https://blog.codeberg.org/letter-from-codeberg-onwards-and-u...

Quotes from their website:

Infrastructure status [...] We are running on 3 servers, one Gigabyte and 2 Dell servers (R730 and R740).

Here's their current hardware: https://codeberg.org/Codeberg-Infrastructure/meta/src/branch...

[...] Although aged, the performance (and even energy efficiency) is often not much worse than with new hardware that we could afford. In the interest of saving embodied carbon emissions from hardware manufacturing, we believe that used hardware is the more sustainable path.

[...] We are investigating how broken Apple laptops could be repurposed into CI runners. After all, automated CI usage doesn't depend on the same factors that human beings depend on when using a computer (functioning screen, speakers, keyboard, battery, etc.). If you own a broken M1/M2 device or know someone who does, and believe that it is not worth a conventional repair, we would be happy to receive your hardware donation and give it a try!

[...] While it usually holds up nicely, we see sudden drop in performance every few days. It can usually be "fixed" with a simple restart of Forgejo to clear the backlog of queries.

Gives both early-Google as well as hackerspace vibes, which can or can not be a good thing.