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They are still too expensive by limiting you on the number of private repositories and not on storage or something else (requests, etc). If you are a small bus
by fierarul 16y ago
They are still too expensive by limiting you on the number of private repositories and not on storage or something else (requests, etc).
If you are a small business or a freelancer you have a lot of small projects each into a separate repository. So with each new customer you use up another private repository until you have to upgrade to the next plan.
I won't use GitHub until it's either metered (like Amazon EC2/S3) or until they only charge for "active" repositories -- meaning repositories where I had commits or some other form of activity during the billable month.
- detst 16y agoI agree but charging based on repo count does seem to work for most people. If I'm switching to github for my private repos, I want to be able to put everything in there. Being limited to 10 or even 20 just doesn't cut it for me. I'd have to throw down $200 to get near what I want but my usage might not be greater than someone paying $25 or less.
- tomafro 16y agoIf one of your projects becomes dormant, you always have the option to move it off the site. If it becomes active again, it's easy to push the repository back up to github.
- jackowayed 16y agoYeah, I have several git repos that I don't need to work on now but could want in the future (and can't post publicly) in Dropbox for safe keeping. I deleted them from GitHub so I could stay under my Micro plan's limit. One of the great things about using git :)
- edanm 16y agoThat sounds like a lot of overhead that is best avoided. For me, half the point of these types of services is the "upload and stop worrying" mentality.
- lars512 16y agoI don't really use GitHub, but the same issue comes around with BitBucket. The main obstacle to taking projects off BitBucket is their issue tracker (wiki is cloneable). You don't really want to lose issue history every time you take something off the site. I've been looking at distributed bug trackers such as Bugs Everywhere (http://bugseverywhere.org/be/show/HomePage http://bugseverywhere.org/be/show/HomePage) for this reason.
- pwim 16y agoIt seems like this could be a new feature for github - archive a project.
- slig 16y ago> If you are a small business or a freelancer you have a lot of small projects each into a separate repository. You should check http://RepositoryHosting.com http://RepositoryHosting.com . 6/mo buys you unlimited repositories and users, git/hg/svn, SSL, etc.