I started on free, then upgraded to a 'pro' subscription. Now I'm paying the pro subscription + ~ $300 / mo in additional runner costs. Now looking at starting to self-host some runners to offset that growing cost.

It’s super easy to self host ci, I hosted one with a hetzner VM (pick one in the cheapest region, it doesn’t matter much where CI lives

I've started hosting most of my private projects on a self hosted gitea, but one roadblock I've found is oidc auth - from GitHub actions I can publish to the Google play store, or npm, without needing to manage any static credentials. I know I'll need to manage some kind of secrets/identity when self hosting, though I'm still looking for nicer solutions than a bunch of static secrets for individual services.