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I like paying for github. They are an important service to me - for open source and private projects, and I want a profitable business to be based on it. I li

I like paying for github. They are an important service to me - for open source and private projects, and I want a profitable business to be based on it. I like that they have skin in the game.

mxavier 15y ago
Our company gives them money but the main thing is that we have a lot of small private projects that are more like prototypes and will never see the light of day. We are not permitted to open source them and probably wouldn't if we could because they'd be worthless to everyone but us. The pricing plans for additional private repos is pretty steep with github so we had to pay for a crappy repository hosting service to dump all of our second tier projects. GitLab would be pretty neat to allow us to store our second rate stuff on our own servers and the stuff we use every day on github.
- RVijay007 15y ago
  Why not use bitbucket.org instead if you have a bunch of small private repositories? They allow for unlimited private repositories, and it has been working quite well for me.
- jarin 15y ago
  I actually use Assembla's free git repos for client projects and throwaway projects.
  - Tobu 15y ago
    So they re-opened that offer? When they closed it I had to endure about six dire e-mails when all I wanted to say was screw you, I've already re-hosted my stuff.
    - jarin 15y ago
      Yep, it's just slightly hidden on the "create repo" page now.
driverdan 15y ago
Except github's plans screw companies that have a lot of projects. At my last full time job we had 20-40+ projects at once. The public plans only go up to 20 repos. Most were microsites coming in under 2MB space.
- askbjoernhansen 15y ago
  Huh? If you setup the paid plan with an organization it's about $2/month per project. The advertised plans go up to 125 repositories for $200/month.