Replace a whole 24/7 team of devops people with myself?
As much as I'd like to believe that I'm worthy, I'm not.
If the primary forge's only job is to host the actual Git infrastructure (the code, the MRs, the issues, maybe a wiki), it's a lot more simple than GitHub, and probably more within the scope of what people can reasonably administer themselves.
24/7 devops team for a forgejo instance? Come on mate...
It's the devops team can manage a measly 87% uptime [1] you're talking about, you can do a lot better on your homeserver.
[1]: https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/