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by Cthulhu_ 4871 days ago
> Cost for GitHub/Bitbucket vs. time to maintain another web application? Hmm...

Both Github's and Bitbucket's prices max out at $200 a month; if you're a freelancer, that's worth about 2 - 4 hours of your time per month. That amount is easily spent on hosting/managing your own repositories. If you can avoid spending 2 - 4 hours a month on repositories, go for those.

$200 is nothing if you're running a business.

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If you bill 160 hours per week and work maybe 200 hours, that’s still 1.5 to 2 percent of your time. I would call that non-trivial and worth at least looking into.
Not sure what point you're trying to make, but there's only 168 hours in a week.
And my point is that a cost that’s 1 to 2 percent of your revenue every month is worth looking into and possibly reducing. Even if you decide to keep it for the time being, it’s worth revisiting every couple of years or so.
Sorry, I meant per month.