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Don't offer a free storage quota or limit how many projects you can host. There, problem solved. The people who leave will no longer be a drain on your servers and the people who stay will be paying for the maintenance of those servers.

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That would kill the majority of open source projects hosted on github, free hosting for public repos is one of the reasons it's so great. I'm willing to pay for private repos, but if I had to pay for my public ones too, I'd just not host them on github.

I'd be willing to pay Github for some other premium service besides private repos (they're not of much use to me, tbh).

Uhh... can't think of anything off the top of my head that I really need or want though... OH, wait, I know, how about Bespin integration?

Maybe those open source projects should charge a fee as well?

I'm a paying GitHub customer and having big projects like Ruby on Rails and Perl hosted there makes me very comfortable. I figure if they can handle the big stuff, they can handle me! Plus, I use as much free software as everyone else and am happy to help out indirectly (by being a paying customer).

I expect prices will rise soon as well. I'm not sure anyone has mentioned this yet, even though it seems inevitable. Still, I think GitHub is fantastic and I'm planning to increase my usage.

The reliability will need to go WAAY up before they can even think about touching prices, I'm being about as patient as I can be for spending $$$ per month on it.

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