Re:Ask HN: How can a site like GitHub make money when it pou...
by akhatri_aus on Saturday June 06, 2015 @01:11AM
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They have paid plans which are quite pricey compared to the cost of data.
A repository isn't likely to cross the 1 gb threshold easily. They also email you if it does.
According to A16Z's podcast or something somewhere they have been profitable since inception so it was not much of a problem.
Keep in mind traffic and storage are cheap, and cheaper still in bulker quantities. 1 TB of data is about $30 a month on S3. If each repository averaged 50 mb one user's $7 a month subscription could support nearly 5,000 repos. 50mb is also quite large for a repository btw.
If each was about 5mb that's nearly 50,000 repositories that could be supported cost wise with their cheapest $7 micro plan.
Re:Ask HN: How can a site like GitHub make money when it pou...
by brudgers on Saturday June 06, 2015 @07:42AM
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Which points out that when your use case for Github is as offsite backup and/or a central repository, self hosting on Amazon is a potentially cost effective alternative.
A repository isn't likely to cross the 1 gb threshold easily. They also email you if it does.
According to A16Z's podcast or something somewhere they have been profitable since inception so it was not much of a problem.
Keep in mind traffic and storage are cheap, and cheaper still in bulker quantities. 1 TB of data is about $30 a month on S3. If each repository averaged 50 mb one user's $7 a month subscription could support nearly 5,000 repos. 50mb is also quite large for a repository btw.
If each was about 5mb that's nearly 50,000 repositories that could be supported cost wise with their cheapest $7 micro plan.