I think Gogs/Gitea is interesting in that it's super lightweight and shipped a self-contained binary, that's up and running in seconds. (Gitlab recommends at least 4GB of free memory[0])
Perhaps that is not relevant when someone else is doing the hosting, but I've gotten used to Gogs/Gitea now.
Interesting. That does sound somewhat attractive. I do occasionally try to run a git repository myself, and while I appreciate that Gitlab is open source, it was a bit cumbersome to set up.
I note that notabug said it was powered by a liberated version of gogs. What are they referring to there? Was something not sufficiently free about the original?