A fairy god-mother who pays the electricity bill for the servers was, AFAICS, mentioned in a couple of children’s bed-time stories …
It is possible that, somewhere out there in the Internet, there’s a service funded by advertising – you’ll not be billed for the usage but, you’ll have to accept the advertising …
On Sun, 16 Dec 2018 01:06:03 +0000, dilbertone wrote:
> hello and good evening dear OpenSuse-experts,
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> Can I use GitHub as free unlimited cloud storage?
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> well i guess no
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> btw: I have found out the following:
> https://help.github.com/articles/what-is-my-disk-quota/
> https://help.github.com/articles/about-storage-and-bandwidth-usage/
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> *conclusion: * well - i guess that the github folders are public unless
> to pay for service?
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> but wait: What about Bitbucket:
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> this seems to be a good idea - Bitbucket has free private repos.
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> love to hear from you yours dilbert
You should probably ask this of the folks who run github and bitbucket.
They have their own support options and communities.
Github public repos are completely free, no strings attached regarding numbers of repos and bandwidth. From time to time over the years there have been changes regarding file size (Don’r remember the current limit, is probably about 5MB byt i’m guessing) and quantity (Unless you’re considered to be really abusing the service, AFAIK is flexible and very large so as an individual and your own repo it’s not likely you’ll have any problem).
For the absolutely best info, you should search the Github website for its pricing and Terms and Conditions any time there is reason.
Gitlab is another git service that allows creation of free private repositories.
But, consider what you need to be private or not. You might be surprised that relatively few things need to be hidden from view.
In fact,
Github is the big gorilla and everyone else is trying to compete so might offer better features… but it’s hard to compete with Github’s operation… It’s massively funded by its initial capital investment funding and currently by its acquisition by Microsoft which sees Github as a cornerstone to support its future generation of coders, both internal and external. It remains to be seen if Microsoft modifies what github is today, the promise is that nothing will change but my guess is that future features like its internal GVFS (Microsoft’s not the other one) look really interesting. At this time, I don’t see any special worry about whether GVFS would be widely available since it’s a core modification of NTFS so it’s not like we’d be clamoring about a Linux version. And, GVFS would be of interest only to massively large organizations like SUSE, Microsoft, etc and not ordinary sized community and individual developers. Bottom line is that Microsoft had plenty of reasons and motivation to acquire Github and although no one can foretell the future, i’d personally believe that Microsoft doesn’t have to radically change the existing Github business model to justify the price of acquisition.