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I think it's ridiculous to charge so much for private repository hosting and even limiting the amount of repositories you can have. Github is great, but I despise their pricing scheme.

BitBucket lets you have unlimited private repo's for free and limit the amount of contributors you can have.

That's an option you should look into. Limit the amount of contributors, not repo's.

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Great suggestion! I was thinking about charging per repo, but I agree that BitBucket's model is better. You want people to put as much projects in source control as possible and limiting repo's discourages that. Counting the contributors on private repo's probably correlate pretty well with company size which correlates with how much they can spend.

Another option is Repository Hosting, which offers unlimited repositories and users for a flat fee, and just limits your storage.

Well, i use Bitbucket with education license (simply register bitbucket with campus email) and i get unlimited repo with unlimited collaborator for free. This is more than enough for my private projects. But i hope Gitlab.io could give more than this so i may switch into.

what can gitlab give you to get yout o switch?

Do you know any major players that use this model?