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17th September, 2009
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GitHub moving to Rackspace

GitHub, the open source repository, is moving to Rackspace.

How do they have so much money?

Rackspace for those who don't know are expensive premium hosting, of course you get what you paid for and they're excellent, but none-the-less. GitHub who offers free repos for OpenSource projects can actually afford it?

How much paid GitHub hosting do you need to afford that? Even if we assume all their customers take the "Giga" plan @ $200 per month. The cheapest Rackspace server I've seen is still $600 per month with 1TB raid 1. I suppose their $200 plan is only 60GB. which means they can fit around 10 giga plan at least in 1 server, so $2000-$600=$1400 profit.

Though to be perfectly honest, I did thought about moving my repository to github as git is the new and hip version control system. Though I had a look at the prices and instantly knew they're more than in reality it would cost.

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