[Tehnix]

I think some of that can be solved with https://enterprise.github.com (which has an academic discount and offers an "unlimited campus-wide student license").

I can't clearly see how much maintenance you have to deal with though, so that might not be a viable suggestion without disregarding my original complaint.

[mscman]

That's a good point, there are enterprise hosted offerings. I'm just pointing out that the sell to higher level university officials to switch off of internal infrastructure to "cloud" offerings (yes, yes, I realize that word is overused) can be rather difficult.