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Another new service on the scene, providing cheap unlimited git hosting repositories, is sourcehold.com specifically to help solve this problem. Full Disclosure: I am writing it, and it is still in beta.
How much are you going to charge?
They provide a great service, and I use them all the time, but I don't like how their pricing scheme works for freelancers. You end up with a million small private repositories, and BitBucket has much more reasonable options.
I've been there for years and I couldn't be happier. The only downtime was when AWS went down for everyone.
They provide a great service, and I use them all the time, but I don't like how their pricing scheme works for freelancers. You end up with a million small private repositories, and BitBucket has much more reasonable options.
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Code availability from anywhere without having to manage your own repo server. Even for a single dev it might be worth it to be able to check out to your normal dev workstation, your laptop, and even on a totally random pc when the need arises. It also allows you to checkup on things through the web when a pc to checkout on isn't available.
A git server (at least on a personal scope) requires close to zero management. Fire up an Ubuntu box on Linode or such, `sudo apt-get install git`, boom, there's your server. A git server is nothing more than "filesystem + SSH + git". Not to say GitHub doesn't make it even more convenient, but the DIY option isn't exactly difficult either.
Wow, that number almost doesn't seem believable. A million people must be a good chunk of all programmers in the world. This Wikipedia article[1] says there are 612,000 programmers in the US and 522,000 in India. Admittedly old incomplete data but it's easy to see how a million people might be 10-20% of all programmers worldwide. In corporate drone offices I've been in my guess is maybe 10% of programmers have even h…
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Code availability from anywhere without having to manage your own repo server. Even for a single dev it might be worth it to be able to check out to your normal dev workstation, your laptop, and even on a totally random pc when the need arises. It also allows you to checkup on things through the web when a pc to checkout on isn't available.
You can use Dropbox as Git server if you wan't.
(See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1964347/mercurial-and-i-g... and http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1960799/using-gitdropbox-... )
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Yeah, it's ridiculous. I have enough repos that I'd need the Platinum 200 dollar a month plan. All the repos are small and most are updated once or twice a year -- but the pricing is the same as if I had a whole team of people pushing to github every day.
But what's the point of having those on Github anyway? GH is great for teams or for sharing your code with 'the community', but I don't see what it buys you for private, single developer projects over a directory in your drive(s).
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How much are you going to charge?
Will be $4 a month and a 1gb limit and $1 p/g after that. I am still trying to figure out pricing for collaborators, but it won't be bad at all. The $4 will include 3 collaborators automatically.
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A git server (at least on a personal scope) requires close to zero management. Fire up an Ubuntu box on Linode or such, `sudo apt-get install git`, boom, there's your server. A git server is nothing more than "filesystem + SSH + git". Not to say GitHub doesn't make it even more convenient, but the DIY option isn't exactly difficult either.
Gitosis also takes like all of 5 minutes to set up and then you've got repositories that you can collaborate on and manage permissions between projects. http://scie.nti.st/2007/11/14/hosting-git-repositories-the-e... I set up our repo hosting using Gitosis a few years back and haven't had to think about it since. Accounts are also managed via a special repo so even that is done over git. You could also put your colle…