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I self-host most of my personal git repos on a NAS. They're literally just `git init --bare` folders in `/srv/src` that I access over SSH. Requires essentially zero setup and maintenance and I don't have to be worried if my internet or some other provider dies.

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This also allows more freedom in the directory structure, instead of the `$USERNAME/$REPONAME` that is enforced by basically every hosted solution.

Yup, though you actually lose the ability to control access via groups in the URI this way (not that it matters, it's way more flexible to use Unix FS permissions)

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