We're a small business with 20+ repositories and faced this problem long ago. GitHub pricing simply isn't tailored for small projects. We moved to SpringLoops which only charges for "active" projects, so we can close those projects that only get opened for an occasional fix/compile. I really miss GitHub and all the new features, but can't complain for the price.
Legit Teams: Private git repository hosting tailored for small teams
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#12You seem to be heavily focussed on Github's financial costs, but why should I use this over something like Bitbucket, which provides free hosting for small teams and very reasonable pricing for teams?
As the owner of a small non-profit with real turnover, I would much rather use something like this.. just my two cents. We've had issues with holdover accounts costing us even after our developers are no longer actively involved. It makes a lot more sense to charge based on storage space.
Both systems makes sense, because it depends on your situation. There is no better, its just different.
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#13So far, I loved the very polished interface and the reasonable pricing (this coming from a RepositoryHosting costumer). I'll push some code to try out. Congrats and good luck!
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#14It's undeniably an awesome deal and I really like the website design. I get a little concerned about the business model. Almost to the point that it would prevent me from hosting my code with them for fear of them going out of business or raising their prices later. The current git repo for the commercial product I work on is 850MB. This is millions of lines of code + 8-9 years of development (migrated from svn at so…
We created Legit Teams because we ourselves needed a service like it. As such, we don't view this as a business that's going to make us millions of dollars so much as a product that we'd love for both us and others to use. In turn, making enough money to simply handle our costs is really enough for us to keep this going. tl;dr We're not raising prices or shutting Legit Teams down because it's not a business, but a to…
What happens when you become large enough to justify an organization account at GitHub and it no longer becomes beneficial for you to either use or continue to operate Legit Teams?
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#152GB of space isn't all that much. That's the free plan assembla offers. We blew through it with a year of general disciplined use but every once in a while we dropped a DLL or game asset in and so the 3 people generated 2GB of git in a year. While it's possible to get rid of such assets from history permanently its complex and risks other data loss if you're not extremely cautious.
Just feedback to say that arranging for custom plans at 2GB seems low.
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#16Bitbucket offers unlimited private git repos for individuals and small teams (upto 5 people) with no limits on storage... for free.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
We created Legit Teams because we ourselves needed a service like it. As such, we don't view this as a business that's going to make us millions of dollars so much as a product that we'd love for both us and others to use. In turn, making enough money to simply handle our costs is really enough for us to keep this going. tl;dr We're not raising prices or shutting Legit Teams down because it's not a business, but a to…
What happens when you become large enough to justify an organization account at GitHub and it no longer becomes beneficial for you to either use or continue to operate Legit Teams?
Push to GitHub since every Git repo retains full history by default.
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#18Just curious - how are you planning to address the problem of ssh key lookup at scale ? Github hacked its own PAM module to read from MySQL, if I'm not wrong.
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#19Competing on price - this is very low margin, even with negligible storage and bandwidth costs - when GitHub is already in the "dollar per repo" range seems like a good idea until you realize that your target market (poor students) might not want to give you anything.
I strongly recommend that you read the first of the Copy Hacks books: the one on messaging. Key is the insights on identifying the motivations of your users.
Best of luck!
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#20It's undeniably an awesome deal and I really like the website design. I get a little concerned about the business model. Almost to the point that it would prevent me from hosting my code with them for fear of them going out of business or raising their prices later. The current git repo for the commercial product I work on is 850MB. This is millions of lines of code + 8-9 years of development (migrated from svn at so…
We created Legit Teams because we ourselves needed a service like it. As such, we don't view this as a business that's going to make us millions of dollars so much as a product that we'd love for both us and others to use. In turn, making enough money to simply handle our costs is really enough for us to keep this going. tl;dr We're not raising prices or shutting Legit Teams down because it's not a business, but a to…
There are 30 developers on the project I work on. So if you get 1000 customers just like us. You're making $5000/month to handle the load of 30,000 daily users. Chances are you'll have to handle support too.
Not sure if we're typical or how much load 30,000 users would generate. Personally, I pull/push at least once a day. Just something for you to keep in mind.