Gitlab is great, but it also is pretty resource hungry. I opted for Gitea for that reason, so it would be viable on the cheapest Linode server option, and I've mostly been satisfied with it, thus far.
Same, there were a number of GitHub like services you could self host but gitea stood out to me as the easiest to install and maintain. A lot of the other options I looked at required multiple daemons, a full database, etc. Gitea can use a full database but works great with SQLite also.
