> I can 7$ a month for only 5 repositories. That's insanely expensive for such a small repository with MINIMAL traffic in an out. I understand your plight, I'v

> I can 7$ a month for only 5 repositories. That's insanely expensive for such a small repository with MINIMAL traffic in an out. I understand your plight, I've asked GitHub similar questions before and they were very gracious. But the simple fact is, and let's talk frankly as developers here, customers are overhead. Most of the time I really enjoy working with my customers, and we get along great, but at the end of the day if the checks stop coming I'm going to stop working for them. You see, you're thinking about this from a "but it's only 200KB of text files sitting on S3, why does it cost so much?" But GitHub sees your proposal as another customer relationship to maintain. Customer relationships are expensive and require investment. They require support staff to answer emails. They require expensive on-call devops to be paged in the middle of the night when some random fileserver (maybe even the one with your minimally trafficked repos) stops responding. GitHub's business model isn't eyeballs, it's dollars, and your proposal doesn't bring them dollars.