Bitbucket is in many ways a better option than GitHub for code hosting. In particular, Bitbucket gives you the choice of Mercurial or Git, allows private repos

Bitbucket is in many ways a better option than GitHub for code hosting. In particular, Bitbucket gives you the choice of Mercurial or Git, allows private repos on the free plan (so you can start developing in private then switch the access to public when the code is ready), and only charges you for the number of users who can access your private repos vs. number of repos. And Bitbucket is much cheaper than GitHub. See https://bitbucket.org/plans https://bitbucket.org/plans to https://github.com/settings/billing https://github.com/settings/billing for details. (FWIW, I'm not affiliated w/ Bitbucket, but use it every day in my job and am quite happy w/ it. I also have a GitHub account.)