Git LFS 1GB bandwidth free tier limitation

[slimsag]

So, shame on me for not doing enough investigation first. And shame on GitHub for not mentioning free tier limitations on their own website (https://git-lfs.github.com/) for this.

I've found under the Pricing section of their blog post on Git LFS that the free tier is limited to 1GB of bandwidth (yes, not 1GB of file storage or upload bandwidth, but actual download bandwidth). We'll probably run out by end of month (if we haven't already?) because each git clone is a few MB of git-lfs data. What a pity.

Funny enough, even Microsoft is doing better by offering unlimited storage for Git LFS, see this blog post where they say:

VSO has always provided unlimited free storage for Git repos, and we are extending that to Git-LFS too. You should still be careful and make sure to only include files in your repo that actually make sense for your needs, but do it because it makes sense for your team, not because of cost.

I intend to keep the code here, obviously, for the community etc. But I'll probably switch over to VSO for Git LFS storage, or my own personal server. Not sure yet. 😢

EDIT: for those curious the email notification I got from GitHub about this:

We wanted to let you know that you’ve used 80% of your data plan for Git LFS on the organization azul3d. No immediate action is necessary, but you might want to consider purchasing additional data packs to cover your bandwidth and storage usage:

https://github.com/organizations/azul3d/billing/data/upgrade

Current usage as of 21 Mar 2016 12:06AM UTC:

Bandwidth: 0.82 GB / 1 GB (82%)
Storage: 0.07 GB / 1 GB (7%)

[sardonic2]

Consider mirroring at gitlab.com hosted and use their free LFS?
https://about.gitlab.com/2015/11/23/announcing-git-lfs-support-in-gitlab/