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They provide a great service, and I use them all the time, but I don't like how their pricing scheme works for freelancers. You end up with a million small priv
by xorglorb 15y ago
They provide a great service, and I use them all the time, but I don't like how their pricing scheme works for freelancers. You end up with a million small private repositories, and BitBucket has much more reasonable options.
- percent20 15y agoAnother new service on the scene, providing cheap unlimited git hosting repositories, is sourcehold.com specifically to help solve this problem. Full Disclosure: I am writing it, and it is still in beta.
- getsat 15y agoUnlimited? You may want to rethink your business model.
- jwallaceparker 15y agoHow much are you going to charge?
- percent20 15y agoWill be $4 a month and a 1gb limit and $1 p/g after that. I am still trying to figure out pricing for collaborators, but it won't be bad at all. The $4 will include 3 collaborators automatically.
- marcomonteiro 15y agoWhat about non-collaborators, like clients so they can clone repo's and use the ticketing features but not commit?
- KVFinn 15y agoYeah, it's ridiculous. I have enough repos that I'd need the Platinum 200 dollar a month plan. All the repos are small and most are updated once or twice a year -- but the pricing is the same as if I had a whole team of people pushing to github every day.
- joelhaasnoot 15y agoAnd the team plans offer very little value for money vs the normal plans... It'd be great if you could trade diskspace for # of repositories or something like that.
- icebraining 15y agoBut what's the point of having those on Github anyway? GH is great for teams or for sharing your code with 'the community', but I don't see what it buys you for private, single developer projects over a directory in your drive(s).
- Pyrodogg 15y agoCode availability from anywhere without having to manage your own repo server. Even for a single dev it might be worth it to be able to check out to your normal dev workstation, your laptop, and even on a totally random pc when the need arises. It also allows you to checkup on things through the web when a pc to checkout on isn't available.
- icebraining 15y agoYeah, I guess I assume any developer has some online "drive", be it Dropbox, a NAS or just some web based storage. That's all you really need for a git repository.
- glenngillen 15y agoAnd for a single dev who actually has a need to be concerned about all of these things, $200/month doesn't seem unreasonable to have someone else manage it all for you. The alternative is of course to run your own repo server as you said, which with git can be as simple as just a directory you can access via SSH.
- ergo14 15y agoThen use bitbucket, recently after they updated the website its actually really good service
- marketer 15y agoI recently switched to Unfuddle for private repos. It's designed for small teams and freelancers.
- simonbrown 15y agoOr RepositoryHosting.
- ElliotH 15y agoBitBucket is also very nice for students, their deal gives you unlimited private repos among other things, far more generous than GitHub.
- X-Istence 15y agoDid they change that recently? For as long as I have been on Bitbucket I have had LOADS of private repos ...
- 0x12 15y agoI suspect one of the reasons why github just hit a million users is that people use more than one account to get around that limitation.
- kneath 15y agoWhat limitation does this get you around? Private repositories do cost more if you use more private repos, but creating another account doesn't get you anything. Look at our plans — it would actually cost more to use multiple accounts to publish many private repos.
- 0x12 15y agoApologies I was mixing up your plans with one of your competitors.
- insanecanadian 15y agoDisclaimer: I haven't used these company before, but they do seem like an okay option: https://codeplane.com/ https://codeplane.com/
- jwallaceparker 15y agoI just signed up for them earlier today, actually. It seems simple so far. Nice looking interface. Less features than GitHub (no file browser, no web interface that shows commits) but hopefully they will address that.
- slig 15y agoRepositoryHosting.com I've been there for years and I couldn't be happier. The only downtime was when AWS went down for everyone.
- bad_user 15y agoI just have my own Github repository on an EC2 instance that I rent. I can have how many repositories I want with GB of data, whatever for something like $12 per month.
- Suan 15y agohttp://projectlocker.com/ http://projectlocker.com/ provides free private git repositories. Sure, their GUI is nowhere close to Github's, but you get what you pay for.
- rs 15y agoHave a look at http://xp-dev.com http://xp-dev.com which does not have any limits on number of projects (disclaimer: I run it)