> It sounds odd Engine Yard hosts an entire for-profit company for free just in exchange for some complimentary accounts. Well, sort of. It's really a value t

> It sounds odd Engine Yard hosts an entire for-profit company for free just in exchange for some complimentary accounts. Well, sort of. It's really a value trade-off. EY offers its customers something that would cost them $50 a month, so it's costing Github (customers) * $50 to offer that. They exchange the lost value for added value in hosting (i.e., they're "losing" a few thousand a month in free accounts for our customers, so we'll offer them free hosting to continue to offer that). It's simple barter.