> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of John Coleman > > Yale University is considering whether to purchase the Github > Enterprise virtual appliance to run on premises. We'd like to hear > from existing customers about the appliance and the support they > receive from Github. If you'd be willing to speak with us, please > email me privately at [email protected], or, if you wish, share > your experiences with the list.
I'm currently supporting a site using Github Enterprise. You pay per block of 20 users, per year. They have different ways you can run it - In our case, we downloaded a vmware virtual appliance, and we simply launched it in our existing vmware infrastructure. If you have a lot of users, and/or it's a free open source product, then most likely you're better off to use a "standard" git server without github, or just use github itself (because they will host unlimited open source products for free.) If you're considering github enterprise, I have to assume, it's because you have a private product that you will not expose to massive numbers of people. You want to host it yourself for reasons of security/privacy. Out of the box, it supports both https and ssh. This is important, because many users find themselves in corporate networks that disallow outbound ssh. The main difference between the two is: ssh is authenticated using keys, so you never have to enter a password. https is authenticated via password, and your git client has the optional of being configured to cache the password for a limited time, but not for infinite time or beyond reboots. The main advantage of GHE versus a standard git server is: GHE wraps a bunch of social stuff together. Wiki, bug tracker, etc are included out-of-the-box. Zillions of plugins also exist for all the usual social network / collaborative software development suspects. If you want, you can try to "build your own github" by going and building/installing all the social tools you want with your vanilla git server. They all exist; it's just a question of effort versus money to buy the prebuilt thing. Unfortunately the GHE product doesn't have any way to do backups. So hopefully you put it on some storage where you can snapshot & backup yourself. Or, maybe the only stuff you care about is the actual contents of the repository, in which case, you can simply create some cron job somewhere to clone/pull your repo. That would count as "backup" depending on your needs. Their support is pretty good - I just email them, and typically within an hour or two, I have a very knowledgeable reply. There is no emergency phone support or anything like that. Anything else you would like to know? _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
