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I wouldn't even think about charging anyone for anything until you get it all setup and dialed in with backups, etc and are sure you know how to keep the service running.
Yes, I have the infrastructure setup. Shits got like 3 backups including a very hard offline 12 TB backup WD blue drive that's absolutely purely for being nothing but backups for this server
Not saying this is impossible, you just need to have these questions in mind, and the answers written down before you start charging people for the service, and have the support infrastructure ready.
Or you can just provide the service for free, best-effort without guarantees.
I do both (free services for a few friends, paid by customers at $work, small team). Most of the time it's smooth riding but it needs preparation (and more than 1 guy to handle emergencies - vacations, bus factor and all that).
For the git service I can recommend gitea + gitea-actions (I run the runners in podman). Gitlab has more features but it can be overwhelming if you don't need them, and it requires more resources.
I just use BTRFS, make a snapshot and bam
But I also follow the rules of 3