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I'm really curious how much longer github can offer so much free service. It's not just git but effectively free web hosting as well, at least for statically se
by greggman 14y ago
I'm really curious how much longer github can offer so much free service. It's not just git but effectively free web hosting as well, at least for statically served pages.
It seems like it's only a matter of time before something will have to give. Either they'll have to start throttling web serving or cover the site in ads like sourceforge or something
I guess I'd better sign up and start paying ASAP to help be part of the solution
- robin_reala 14y agoPlenty of companies pay GitHub multiple thousands of dollars a year for their services. It’s not just personal accounts.
- jamescun 14y agoI don't think GitHub's hosting of free repositories costs them that much. As you said yourself, it is just essentially free hosting so the largest cost will probably be storage (which is pretty cheap anyway now) and then the much minor cost of Push/Pull/Clone etc bandwidth and processing. Think of it less as a free service and think of it more as marketing. I have a few free repos which I used to open source some of my personal modules; however when it came time to select a source revisioning service for work, I remembered how easy GitHub was and went with their payed service. I am fairly sure us now paying for our repositories offset itself and my and quite a few other free repositories.
- kcbanner 14y agoGithub is used by large enterprises.