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So much about this doesn't make sense to me. What features does Github offer that make you want to use it over, good example, BitBucket? Why do you feel you deserve those features for free? Why in particular do you feel you deserve to use those features for free to do your own paying work? Come to think of it, what kind of freelancing are you doing where $7/mo is a notable expense?

Really, help me, I want to understand— but you sound like a crazy person.

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I have about 50 repositories. It would cost me a lot per month to host it on Github. Why do I want to use Github? Because I'm transitioning from C# (MVC3) work to Ruby on Rails work.

Heroku only integrates well with Github (for some stupid reason) and I would prefer to host it on Github for my comfort.

I'm located in Bolivia. I do not charge 4000$ per project. My cost of living is lower, hence, my rates are lower than most first world country programmers. There's your reason why I can't afford Github's ridiculous prices.

So, assuming you mean 50 private repos, on Github that's $100 or $2/repo/mo.

I understand cost of living differences, but what are you charging that $2/mo makes an impact?

And if finances are really that tight, how do you get away with using Heroku?

What are you doing with Heroku that only works with Github? I simply push code up to Heroku directly from my local machine. What does Github have to do with it?

Please consider that in first-world countries, $7 a month is quite reasonable. Pricing something so that it's affordable to everyone, everywhere, is a hard problem. Also consider that they have to pay US-based developers and services to keep it all running, so they're going to have to charge US prices.

I think his point is that $7/month is reasonable. What's hard to understand is why you could privately host a project the size of jQuery or Rails for $7/month, but his 50 projects that are orders of magnitude smaller and less active would cost much more.

Why do the personal repositories have to be private?

what sort of github/heroku integration are you thinking of?

maybe you should try to learn what decentralized means.

Maybe you should think twice (three times even!) before posting these trite smart-ass comments. This isn't /r/programming.

Have you thought about getting work from clients in other countries? I think for most of us the Github rates are ridiculously low rather than ridiculously high.

$7 a month sounds like a lot for storing a few kilobytes of files. Especially given that he could get 5 GB of storage free on Google Drive or a similar service.

The silly thing here is that Github's pricing for private repos doesn't take into account bandwidth use or repo size. After all, those are the costs to Github, not number of repos. It would be like a grocery store charging you a flat fee for 5 items, without bothering to inquire about what those items were.

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