[alphakappa]

Yes, you can zip up a repo easily. But where do you store it? Do you really want to save it in your email instead of saving it in some kind of source control so that you can use it as such if you need to quickly commit some change?

Saving it to S3 is an option, but then you have to create that account too. Why shouldn't you be able to just use one account?

[true_religion]

Codespace is in the feature middle-ground between Github and a zipped backup.

It's online and active, but its a CLI only.

To match the functionality of Codespace, you don't need anything as inelegant as S3. If you have a dropbox account, you basically have the same functionality as Codespace offers. And its free.

And as a bonus, you can store other things in dropbox apart from your git repos.

Looking at Codespace, its targeting a space below Github that's already massively serviced by other simpler competition.

Edit:

Let me add. Before using Github, I personally would just open a network drive to my webhost, and save things on there. It was cheap. It was CLI. And as a benefit I could save other things apart from my code there.

[burgerbrain]

If your goal is to have only one account, and you presumably also back things up that are not under version control (who doesn't?), then S3 is clearly the more appropriate route since it can do both.