Own your forge. Don't operate it.
The pattern is simple: teams want their own Forgejo instance, but they do not always want to become Forgejo administrators. Fjord exists for that “control without chores” case.
I would like to own my forge, and I would like someone competent to run it. That is the calm version of the instinct, without the outrage.
The part people don’t actually want
Running a forge sounds simple until you are the one responsible for the work around it:
- Upgrades
- Backups
- Email delivery
- TLS certificates
- Storage growth
- Runners
- Security updates
Most teams do not want a hobby. They want a forge. That is the part we take off your plate.
The triggers are real, and they are not ideology
When teams talk about moving from GitHub to Forgejo or Codeberg, the reasons are usually practical: ownership, autonomy, and control over where code lives. AI concerns sit alongside that, but the durable buyer need is calmer and more operational than the discourse suggests.
Fjord is not interested in selling outrage. We are interested in the useful version of that instinct: a dedicated Forgejo, run for your team, with clear data export and no AI training terms.
What Fjord is, and what it is not
Fjord is a dedicated, single-tenant Forgejo run for your team, so you do not have to run it yourself. We handle updates, backups, TLS, and runners. Private by default, never used to train AI, billed per instance, and exportable when you leave.
Fjord is not a public shared forge for free and open-source projects. Codeberg already serves that role well. It is also not a DIY self-hosting guide. The point is that our buyer would rather not become the operator.
Built in the open, and giving back
Forgejo is a community project under a nonprofit, and we do not intend to extract from it. The software stays open, your data exports in Forgejo format, and we intend to send fixes and improvements upstream rather than hoard them.
Commercial hosting can be a good citizen of an open ecosystem. We would rather be judged on what we actually do than asked to take a pledge on faith.