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They have a pretty good track record in code hosting (15 years), why would they ruin it for containers?
by Kwpolska 4y ago
They have a pretty good track record in code hosting (15 years), why would they ruin it for containers?
- bflesch 4y agoGithub shutting down is not on my risk matrix. Hopefully it happens after I retire.
- tankerkiller 4y agoIt's on ours where I work, which is why we use Gitea to clone the various open source projects we use to our own servers. With binary level deduplication the amount of data stored is actually incredibly small. I think the unduplicated storage is like 50GB, and the deduplicated is like 10GB?
- jnwatson 4y agoThe 6-8 orders of magnitude difference in storage required?
- bmacho 4y agoWe need a culture to not use resources even if it is available and cheap. Use github like it wasn't free.
- trey-jones 4y ago> But for how long? applies very much to Github, and for all of their services, not just containers. The elephant in the room, hardly needs to be mentioned I would think (Microsoft). We are only a few years into that regime.
- Sebb767 4y agoYou can say a lot of bad stuff about Microsoft, but they are not known for randomly and suddenly killing of their services.
- macintux 4y agoSerious question, though: how many services have they offered over the years that were free to anyone? Free to existing Windows users, perhaps, but free to the world doesn’t seem like something Microsoft was historically in a position to offer, much less later kill.
- trey-jones 4y agoIt's not randomly and suddenly killing off services, but rather suddenly (and not randomly) changing the pricing structure when companies have been committing to the point of lock-in for years on the free tier.