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Some people have way more than 5 repositories that a $7 plan brings. Also, if you don't want to host it yourself, GitLab.com has free private and public reposit

• gkoberger 12y ago
  For the record, I think GitLab is awesome :) There's a ton of amazing reasons for large companies to use GitLab (storing your own data, customization, etc) that I completely stand by. My umbrage is simply with the price argument Gogs lead with; it'll always end up cheaper to use GitHub (or another hosted solution) than to run your own.
  • neilk 12y ago
    That's true if you're running a typical business. But there really is a whole other world that opens up when things are free. Maybe you are a young person, and don't have access to online payment methods. $84/year or more could be really significant for a 15 year old, or someone in a country that Github can't legally transact with. Or maybe you need to roll your own hosting solution. Maybe for security, maybe you're integrating with APIs like a corp SSO that are not on the public web, etc. We do a few wacky things in our business (test infrastructure SaaS) and sometimes we need to do stuff at scale where all available commercial solutions assume a single user. Open source solutions are a godsend there. We don't have that need for code repos (we use Github) but I can totally see why others would need it.