What's the difference between a GIT server and say a HTTP server? To my understanding, Github are unable to scale GIT, so they have to price accordingly.
Introducing unlimited private repositories
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Re: Introducing unlimited private repositories
#112Have been using Github for a community radio station, have been encouraging all staffers to use github accounts to file issues against our private repos, etc. The friendly policies for many collaborators have made this attractive, even though most users have rarely interacted with the repos, if at all. Now each user for the private repo has a significant cost (pretty significant for a non-profit community radio stati…
Certainly appreciate your question around pricing for non-profits here - have you applied for non-profit status through GitHub?
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#113The pricing is clearly designed to make more revenue from businesses with a lot of users, which makes sense for Github but not for big teams in /mid sized shops who will be paying a lot more.
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#114What about companies like Epic Games that have few repos but many users? With their 2 private UnrealEngine and UnrealTournament repos they would have been paying $25 a month and under the new pricing structure will have to pay $815,913 per month... edit: That's based on what I can see as a UE4 subscriber, 2 private repos and 90657 users.
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The new plan doesn't fit wide organizations at all. With 300+ users we are looking at $30000 pr year for 70 repositories..
We get the freedom to create more repositories for the price of having to actively kick any inactive user out to save cost.
PS: Please make it like Slack. Don't pay for inactive users that doesn't commit anything that month.
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#115For comparison, quoting from the AWS CodeCommit pricing page... AWS CodeCommit costs: $1 per active user per month For every active user, your account receives for that month: 10 GB-month of storage 2,000 Git requests And the 1 year free tier is: 5 active users 50 GB-month of storage 10,000 Git requests
It took a bit of searching to find out what a "Git Request" entailed: "A Git request includes any push or pull that transmits repository objects. The request does not count towards your Git request allowance if there is no object transfer due to local and remote branches being up-to-date." Anyone who's using CodeCommit - have you hit the limits? How much did you go over by?
Even if you hit the limit it's $1 per 1000 requests after that... still potentially cheaper than GitHub.
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#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
We have a tons of repositories, most are currently on BItbucket, because GitHub was to expensive. Only our largest projects are on GitHub. Our team is maybe 8 developers, depending on consultants, interns and other temporary employments, but we have 20 - 30 repos. I think for small companies that do all development in-house, having large number of repos, and few developer is a pretty normal. The way I look at it, Git…
Except that now GitHub is 9x more expensive than BitBucket (and for a team under 5 developers, GitHub is $25 vs. BitBucket's $0).
Well, 7x, but yes, GitHub is more expensive. $70 for 10 developers is still really cheap. Personally I prefer the GitHub interface and $60 is still within the range of even smaller companies.
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#117Earlier quoted context omitted.
We are reaching out to customers that are in unique situations such as the one you're mentioning here. If you have questions about how the pricing changes affect you, please don’t hesitate to contact support@github.com.
If you need to give Epic Games special treatment just because they have a huge amount of outside collaborators, then your pricing model is broken. It would be more fair to charge $9/mo per organization member + $1/mo per active outside collaborator (somewhat similar to AWS CodeCommit) than to charge for every single active and inactive member and collaborator equally. Maybe throw in a 50% bulk discount for active out…
Business are free to close deals with clients in their own terms whenever is lucrative for them. Almost every single company will have "unfair" treatment for big corporations... That way they can get big paying clients. clients that could possibly host their own solutions... It might be that Epic Games in the old business model, with so many users, was not profitable for github, but they are open to negotiate a middle term. It's just business. It is fair.
I think github is on their own right and if you have a case where you think you would be able to negotiate with them, you can send them an email as well... If not, go search another company that have a better cost/benefit for your use case.
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#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
We have a tons of repositories, most are currently on BItbucket, because GitHub was to expensive. Only our largest projects are on GitHub. Our team is maybe 8 developers, depending on consultants, interns and other temporary employments, but we have 20 - 30 repos. I think for small companies that do all development in-house, having large number of repos, and few developer is a pretty normal. The way I look at it, Git…
Except that now GitHub is 9x more expensive than BitBucket (and for a team under 5 developers, GitHub is $25 vs. BitBucket's $0).
Bitbucket is terrible though, so what does it matter?
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#119It would be interesting to know how many users and repositories a typical organization has on Github.
To me, it looks like they're just "optimizing" their pricing, as I would guess that most large organizations using Github have significantly more users than repositories, especially with the recent trend towards "mono-repositories".
That said, SaaS pricing is really hard to get right from the beginning. I run a code analysis company (https://www.quantifiedcode.com) and we thought a lot about which kind of pricing would be the best for us and our users (we decided to use per-repo pricing). In the end, your pricing needs to support your business model, so it's normal to change it especially if you have a lot of data on how your users use your product.
I wonder though if this will drive organizations to other solutions like Gitlab or Bitbucket, as those are significantly cheaper and pretty easy to set up these days (and you get the extra benefit of a self-hosted solution that can be hosted in your own, secure infrastructure)
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#120This change worked out well for us. Gone from paying $200/month to just $25/month for our 5 person organisation.
You could've had it for free this whole time. (And still can!)